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  The Harvard Crimson :: News :: The Lonesome Death of Don Bolles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
DON BOLLES WAS A REPORTER for the Phoenix, Arizona, Republic.
Don Bolles died with a curse on his lips, a tricornered curse: Mafia, Emprise, John Adamson.
John Adamson was the tipster Bolles was to meet, or so it said on the note Bolles left on his desk.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=115436   (1093 words)

  
 Don Bolles Murder Case
Don Bolles was an investigative reporter for the Arizona Republic.
Don Bolles reporting exposed Kemper Marley's connection with the mob, forcing him to resign as a member of the State Board Racing Commission.
Stelzer, C.D. Phoenix Rising:Twenty one years after a car bomb killed journalist Don Bolles, doubts remain as to who was responsible for the murder.
jeff.scott.tripod.com /donbolles.html   (369 words)

  
 Training Provider Detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In 1976, Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles, one of IRE's founding members, was called to meeting in a downtown Phoenix hotel by a source promising him information about land fraud involving organized crime.
Bolles, who had been lured to the hotel by the promise of a news tip, whispers the name "Adamson" to his rescuers.
His former secretary says Roberts told her he was involved in the Bolles murder at various levels, but investigators say his statements may have been influenced by his heavy drinking and taste for melodrama.
www.journalismtraining.org /action/provider_detail?id=710   (1559 words)

  
 Journalism students revisit the death of Don Bolles
Bolles had spent years writing about organized crime and land fraud in Arizona, and prosecutors believed it was this work that led to his murder.
Bolles is not the only American journalist ever to be killed in retaliation for what he dared to publish.
The centerpiece will be Bolles’ 1976 white Datsun, still bearing the scars of six pieces of dynamite that were strapped to its undercarriage and that ended Bolles’ life.
www.azcentral.com /specials/special01/articles/0528bolles-overview.html   (461 words)

  
 On The Media-- The Arizona Project
Bolles' death was so notable that the Newseum, a journalism museum, set to reopen next year in Washington, will devote an entire gallery to his life.
STEVE GOLDSTEIN: When Don Bolles' car was blown up on June 2nd, 1976, the explosion was recorded by an attorney who was dictating in his nearby office.
Bolles had investigated organized crime for the Arizona Republic for more than a decade, and made some enemies.
www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_060206_arizona.html   (1120 words)

  
 Don Bolles - Moviefone
Don Bolles is the former drummer of The Germs, Vox Pop,.45 Grave and Celebrity Skin (among thousands of other smaller bands), co-author of Feral House's...
Bolles had written stories about organized crime; he had also attacked a powerful businessman...
In 1976, Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles, one of IRE's founding members, was called to meeting in a downtown Phoenix hotel by a source promising him...
movies.aol.com /celebrity/don-bolles/7143/main   (115 words)

  
 Colby | Lovejoy Award | Donald F. Bolles
Don Bolles died approximately 17 months ago at the age of 46.
The subsequent history of events has shown that Don Bolles was assassinated because of the stories that he wrote.
Don Bolles is not the only member of our media to die because he sought to find and report the truth.
www.colby.edu /lovejoy/recipients/bolles_r.shtml   (3256 words)

  
 Arlene's Books
The Don Bolles Papers were placed into the possession of Evelyn Thompson, Claimant Schlund, and others after they were stolen by a professional thief, who had been recently released from prison and broke into a safe in a hotel located on North Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Don Bolles files and papers were then taken from the DD, actually the CIA, in a burglary resulting in the CIA losing control of these highly sensitive documents, plans, and other criminal evidence.
Further that, in the Don Bolles Papers were the files on the bugging of everyone that the CIA, Rockefellers, Bush family or others considered a threat to their plans.
truedemocracy.net /reading.htm   (12835 words)

  
 How to Mend Your Parachute
On June 2, 1976, a newspaper reporter named Don Bolles was assassinated in a Phoenix parking lot on his eighth wedding anniversary.
Bolles, 47, was a husband, a father, and the brother of acclaimed career advisor, Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers.
On September 11, when Richard Bolles learned that four commercial airliners had slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the Pennsylvania countryside, he immediately sympathized with the families and friends of people killed in those terrorist attacks.
www.fastcompany.com /articles/2001/12/bolles.html   (1114 words)

  
 2006 Goldwater Lecture Series
His role in the Don Bolles murder cases reflected sound judicial temperament and careful reasoning in what were some of the most highly charged criminal cases in Arizona history.
And though he will discuss the Don Bolles murder cases and I've kind of kind of glanced over his his accomplishments there, I've learned a couple of other things about him, and I've asked him to share share some of his interesting biography with you before he starts with his formal comments.
Now while Bolles was working at the legislature, he told one of his co-workers that he received a phone call from a man he didn't know and the guy told him he had information on an exchange of money involving an Arizona congressman.
www.kaet.asu.edu /goldwater/Schafer.htm   (9553 words)

  
 On the Media
We're less accustomed to hearing about journalists in the United States dying on the job, but in June of 1976, Arizona Republic newspaper reporter Don Bolles whose beat was organized crime was killed in the middle of the day in downtown Phoenix.
It's about a unique collaboration of dozens of investigative reporters from around the country who, drawn together by Bolles' murder, forgot that they were competitors and converged on Phoenix to finish his work.
Bob Early was a city editor at the Republic, and Don Bolles' boss.
www.onthemedia.org /yore/transcripts/transcripts_061804_arizona.html   (1115 words)

  
 Preview of MURDER OF A NEWSMAN
As Bolles lay dying, he whispered to a passerby who had rushed to his aid, “They finally got me.” The unwritten law of the underworld — never kill a newsman — had been broken and all hell broke loose.
In response to this climate of corruption, a group of Bolles’ colleagues from newspapers around the country descended on Phoenix shortly after his death, intent on tearing the place apart, figuratively.
Bolles was just blocks from the Phoenix Press Club where he was on his way to a lunch meeting with O’Connell and several other journalists.
www.simonpure.com /newsman01.htm   (591 words)

  
 MAFIA, EMPRISE, DELAWARE NORTH, DON BOLLES, BRUCE BABBITT, BILL CLINTON...AND JOHN McCAIN? [Free Republic]
This is the milieu Bolles inhabited by the mid-1970s.
But Don Bolles had been off his investigative stories for nearly a year when he was killed, and noone in his line of work wants to consider that he might have been the Phoenix equivalant of the Chicago Tribune's Jake Lingle.
And Don Bolles was not the only one to get in the way of Max Dunlap to die in an explosion; there've been at least three others, one in Arizona and two in California.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a389fd6891b62.htm   (7978 words)

  
 Don Bolles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Don Bolles (July 28, 1928 - June 13, 1976) was a reporter for the Arizona Republic newspaper, published at the time by Nina Mason Pulliam.
On June 2, 1976, Bolles' car was destroyed by a bomb as it sat in a parking lot in Phoenix, Arizona.
Bolles had written stories about organized crime; he had also attacked a powerful businessman named Kemper Marley.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Bolles   (192 words)

  
 IRE History | The Arizona Project
The Arizona Republic has published a package of stories, photos and audio in remembrance of the 30th anniversary of the bombing that killed reporter Don Bolles.
As you are all aware, one of our members, Don Bolles of the Arizona Republic, was killed in a bombing in June...
June 2, 1976 - Bolles, 47, is gravely wounded when six sticks of dynamite are detonated beneath his compact car in the parking lot of the Hotel Clarendon, 401 W. Clarendon Ave.
www.ire.org /history/arizona.html   (1569 words)

  
 Museum revisits bombing | www.tucsoncitizen.com ®
Bolles eventually got tired of the tape, and in any event, it wouldn't have helped him detect the bomb that was fastened under his car on the day he was mortally wounded in 1976.
"Bolles' case is one of the most well-known cases of a journalist in this country paying the ultimate sacrifice, and that is paying with his life to pursue the truth," said Susan Bennett, the Newseum's director of international exhibits.
Bolles had a file in his lap and every once in a while, he would open the file, look at it, close it and ask another question.
www.tucsoncitizen.com /ss/sports/14039   (949 words)

  
 Project Censored 1976 - Story #22: The Don Bolles Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
On June 2, 1976, Don Bolles was permanently "censored" as an investigative reporter for the Arizona Republic when his car exploded in the parking lot of the Hotel Chardon in Phoenix.
As he had been for more than ten years, Bolles was investigating a new lead dealing with massive land frauds, political payoffs, the underworld, and corporate crime.
The Bolles' story is being nominated as one of the "best censored stories" of 1976 since it is a classic example of a form of violent censorship which still takes place in the United States.
www.ringnebula.com /project-censored/1976-1992/1976/1976-story22.htm   (163 words)

  
 Arizona Historical Foundation -Resource Guide
Of particular interest are a series of records about Don Bolles, a central figure to this collection who was an investigative reporter killed in a car bombing in 1976.
Don Bolles: An Investigation into His Murder by Martin Tallberg, 1977.
Established in 1975 as a “grassroots non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting,” the IRE descended upon Phoenix after the murder of Don Bolles.
www.ahfweb.org /resguide_azorgcrime.htm   (240 words)

  
 The University of Arizona
Each Bolles fellow is a UA journalism major dedicated to a career in news; he or she is selected to receive a stipend and live in Phoenix during the spring legislative session.
The news service evolved into annual legislative coverage, and the Don Bolles Fellowship for a full-time legislative reporter was established in 1978.
The Bolles fellow produces two or more stories a week, which are edited by UA Journalism Professor Susan Knight.
journalism.arizona.edu /~journal/uaj/news/bolles.php   (546 words)

  
 JobHuntersBible.com: Introduction - Richard Nelson Bolles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Dick Bolles was born in Milwaukeee, Wisconsin, grew up in Teaneck, N.J., where he attended and graduated from high school.
Bolles lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has five grown children: Stephen, Mark, Gary, Sharon, and Serena (his step-daughter).
His brother was the famous investigative reporter Don Bolles, who was assassinated in Phoenix, Ariz., in 1976.
www.jobhuntersbible.com /intro/bolles.php   (272 words)

  
 Chihak: Bolles should inspire journalists' best | www.tucsoncitizen.com ®
Bolles was a reporter for The Arizona Republic when he was maimed in the bombing.
Memorials to Bolles are being held this week and next in Tucson and Phoenix.
He died a martyr's death, not only for the sake of his newspaper, but also for ordinary people who then were beleaguered by organized crime in the form of land and development fraud.
www.tucsoncitizen.com /ss/opinion/14644   (452 words)

  
 ABC15.com: Phoenix and Arizona News, Live Weather, Web Cams and More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
It was 30 years ago, when Arizona Republic investigative reporter Don Bolles was car bombed in a hotel parking lot in Phoenix.
The ABC 15 Investigators uncovered new evidence and raised new questions into the killing of Don Bolles, and whether an innocent man, Max Dunlap, was framed for one of Arizona's most infamous murders.
Green even bought two 1976 Datsun's, which was the same kind of car Don Bolles was driving at the time of the bombing.
www.knxv.com /news/investigators/index_story.asp?did=30892   (1843 words)

  
 Vinyl Mine
Don was playing in Krazy Homicide but since they weren't very active decided to take up drums and join The Exterminators with Rob [Graves - later in 45 Grave but not in Vox Pop - ed].
Don Bolles: Vox Pop was a big band in that there were like seven people in it, and one of them was kinda fat.
As you may or may not know, at the time of The Germs, their drummer, Don Bolles, was also in a band called Vox Pop with me. I played guitar, I sang some of the songs and I did tons of illicit substances.
vinyljourney.blogspot.com /2006/01/vox-pop-band-myth-volume.html   (2044 words)

  
 Arizona Republic Publishes Cronkite Students' Don Bolles Project
Bolles, an investigative reporter for the Republic, died 11 days after his car exploded in the parking lot of a Phoenix hotel.
Bolles’ death set off a chain reaction of events never repeated in American journalism.
Leach said the Bolles saga is “an issue of public importance, and it was good to see students tackle this for the anniversary.” Leach said he hopes to collaborate with the Cronkite School on similar online projects in the future.
cronkite.asu.edu /news/bolles-052906.html   (970 words)

  
 So Tim's Death Will Not Have Been in Vain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Second, they continued Bolles' investigative reporting on the Arizona Mafia, showing that it is senseless to kill an investigative journalist, because many others will quickly appear to continue the work.
As a result of Don's death and the mobilization that followed, the organization known as Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (IRE) became a national entity.
The Bolles episode reveals something admirable about U.S. society: its capacity to unite during times of crisis, and to marshal the forces needed to overcome adversity.
foi.missouri.edu /jouratrisk/sotimsdeath.html   (926 words)

  
 PHXnews.com | Az Republic Investigative Reporter Don Bolles Killed 30 Years Ago This Week
The 30th anniversary of the murder of investigative reporter Don Bolles is this week.
His research on the Don Bolles case was gone along with several other "useless" papers.
Don Bolles and Max Dunlap remind me of the damage that legacy cost to human lives.
www.phxnews.com /fullstory.php?article=36320   (855 words)

  
 TIME.com: Arizona Invasion Force -- Oct. 18, 1976 -- Page 1
What drew them to Phoenix was the death of Don Bolles, 47, the Arizona Republic investigative reporter killed four months ago when a bomb blew up his car.
Bolles had for years been digging into local political corruption and organized crime.
Now Bolles' colleagues of the IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors Association) will try to pick up where he left off.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,946723,00.html   (613 words)

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