SPJ: Phoenix, Arizona Chapter

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Fifty years ago, a Phoenix reporter lost his life when someone planted a bomb beneath his car and detonated it as he backed out of a parking space at a local hotel. What exactly happened to The Arizona Republic’s Don Bolles on June 2, 1976, and why, continues to fascinate the journalism profession, the state and nation five decades later.

Join Valley of the Sun SPJ as we gather the local media community to commemorate the life, career and death of this dedicated journalist at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, at Baseline Flowers, 3801 E. Baseline Road, Phoenix. Admission is free.

Hear local journalist Jeremy Duda of Axios Phoenix, author of a new book about the Bolles assassination, “Murder in the Fourth Estate,” and Republic reporter Richard Ruelas, who has written extensively about Bolles. Light refreshments will be served.

Here’s a link to our Facebook event page about the commemoration.