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Don Bolles had covered the mafia and the racing industry. In the weeks before he was targeted for assassination, he was at ...
This many left. Here. I’m not sure I could find it now. I don’t know how many columns I’ve written about the Bolles case over the years. Too many, some believe. A reader called me after one ...
Arizona Republic Don Bolles was killed by a car bomb near the Clarendon Hotel in Phoenix. A bust of Bolles is in the hotel ...
Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles was assassinated in a car bombing on June 2, 1976. Three men were convicted in Bolles' murder, but questions remain about who ordered the attack. It's ...
Those would be among the last words Bolles would utter. During the next 11 days, his final ones alive, he would be have a tube in his throat rendering him unable to speak. As a reporter with a ...
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Last week the daughter of the man convicted twice in the 1976 Don Bolles murder spoke on television for the first time in an Arizona’s Family exclusive and claimed her dad ...
But on this day in 1973, Don Bolles was not reporting a story. He was advocating for his daughter, who was born with a hearing impairment. “I speak on behalf (of) my 3-year-old daughter ...
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — It’s one of the most famous murders in Arizona history- the 1976 car bombing of Arizona Republic journalist Don Bolles. Rumors of mob involvement have swirled ever since ...
Arizona Republic investigative reporter Don Bolles died 11 days after a remote-controlled bomb was detonated beneath his car in the parking lot of a central Phoenix hotel on June 2, 1976.
Donald Franklin “Don” Bolles, age 86, of Shelby, passed away peacefully late Wednesday night, December 4, 2024 at Crystal Care Center of Ashland. His death follows a lengthy illness.