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Article: Loud and Clear.
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1991
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Fifteen years have passed since Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles was blown up by car bomb. It happened on June 2, 1976, as Bolles was pulling away from a Phoenix hotel where he had gone to pursue an investigative lead. The perpetrators apparently assumed he would die instantly. Instead, he managed to utter a few words: "They finally got me. The Mafia. Emprise. Find John Adamson."
Those words conveyed a lot of information. Emprise was a sports concessions corporation with alleged links to organized crime; Bolles had worked for years to expose its activities. Adamson was a Phoenix hoodlum known to police.
On June 13, Bolles dies, at the age of ...