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=== Billie Holiday === | === Billie Holiday === | ||
[[File:Billie Holiday 1947 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Billie Holiday singing in 1947]] | [[File:Billie Holiday 1947 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Billie Holiday singing in 1947]] | ||
FBN Special Agent [[George Hunter White]] arrested jazz singer [[Billie Holiday]] at the Mark Twin Hotel in | FBN Special Agent [[George Hunter White]] arrested jazz singer [[Billie Holiday]] at the Mark Twin Hotel in San Francisco.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |last=Hari |first=Johann |date=17 January 2015 |title=The Hunting of Billie Holiday: How Lady Day was in the middle of a Federal Bureau of Narcotics fight for survival |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/drug-war-the-hunting-of-billie-holiday-114298/ |website=[[Politico]]}}</ref> At a conference of the DEA in 2014, historian John C. McWilliams presented the evidence that White consumed most of the narcotics he was pursuing. <ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" /> He was most likely high when he arrested Holiday for possession. <ref name=":10" /> | ||
Years later, in 1959, Holiday died in police custody, handcuffed to a hospital bed and surrounded by FBN agents.<ref name=":10" /> The agents did not allow her to see family or friends, and denied her doctors from administering methodone.<ref name=":10" /> | Years later, in 1959, Holiday died in police custody, handcuffed to a hospital bed and surrounded by FBN agents.<ref name=":10" /> The agents did not allow her to see family or friends, and denied her doctors from administering methodone.<ref name=":10" /> | ||