Join Valley of the Sun SPJ as we gather the state’s media community to commemorate the car bombing death of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles in Phoenix five decades ago
Author of new book on Don Bolles’ assassination headlines 50th anniversary commemoration
Jeremy Duda of Axios Phoenix, author of the new book, “Murder in the Fourth Estate,” joins Republic reporter Richard Ruelas, who has also written extensively about Bolles, in a discussion about the late reporter’s life, career and death — and questions still asked today. The free in-person event 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. June 2, at Baseline Flowers, 3801 E. Baseline Road, Phoenix.
As he lay mortally wounded in the parking lot of the Hotel Clarendon in Phoenix, Don Bolles said these words before losing consciousness: “They finally got me.” “Mafia.” “Emprise.” “John Adamson.” Find out what these words meant at our June 2 commemoration.
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