Investigation into the car bombing murder of newspaper reporter Don Bolles.
In a recent phone conversation with California filmmaker John Church, he asked me an interesting question, one touching on the 1976 Don Bolles homicide. In answering it, I realized that I was in possession of both some information and a related document which ought to be memorialized on my website. I should note as a … Continue reading
For more on the unfortunate efforts by Cesar Chavez and the UFW to sabotage the field organizing work of MCOP and the AFW beginning in 1978, I recommend a 2014 book by Pasadena author Miriam Pawel entitled THE CRUSADES OF CESAR CHAVEZ to which I contributed an extensive interview and related documents. Pawel is a … Continue reading
This is an new and original entry appearing here for the first time. —DD, September 12, 2015 Almost a year ago, when I noticed the obituary of an aging acquaintance named Ralph Feffer — he was in his late 80s — in the ARIZONA REPUBLIC of October 4, 2014, it triggered memories which I’m only now committing … Continue reading
This is an new and original entry appearing here for the first time. —DD, July 21, 2015 There are three published versions of which I’m presently aware regarding Arrowhead Ranch and journalists from the Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) Arizona Project following the fatal June 1976 car-bombing of Phoenix reporter Don Bolles. And none of these … Continue reading
[Originally published in Devereux Newsletter No. 52, November 19, 2010] “Now the plot thickens very much upon us.” – George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, 1628-1687 Preface Soon after the murder of Don Bolles, John Adamson revealingly told an acquaintance, “My people don’t give immunity.” It meant, he felt, that he couldn’t risk telling the truth. … Continue reading
[Originally published in Devereux Newsletter No. 51 (revised), October 30, 2010] “As a journalist, you have to print the truth whenever it emerges, even if it takes thirty years.” —Journalist Deborah Nelson Arizona State University graduate and 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner, April 5, 2009 … Continue reading
In my Don Bolles homicide-related Newsletter No. 50, entitled “A Case of Curious Coincidences”, first published in my February 26, 2009 newsletter and now this blog, I also provided brief commentary on the much earlier murder in Illinois of the first wife of Motorola founder Paul Galvin. Along with her young maid, Edna Sibilski, the … Continue reading
INTRODUCTION Editor & Publisher recently has given me permission to include here an op-ed piece I wrote for that publication back in June 2007. A PDF file of that article follows this introduction. While it doesn’t contain the identities of those believed responsible for the 1976 car-bomb murder of reporter Don Bolles with the specificity of … Continue reading
When I released Newsletter No. 50 on the Don Bolles homicide case back in February 2009, I also felt compelled to append copies of three documents to remove any uncertainties about several key aspects of that information. I have decided to make those documents available here as well. Click on the thumbnails for a view … Continue reading
[Originally published in Devereux Newsletter No. 50, February 26, 2009] A “strange coincidence,” to use a phrase By which such things are settled now-a-days. —Lord Byron ( 1788-1824) Any coincidence, I’ve learned, ought to be viewed with a modicum of suspicion when it neatly underpins the resolution of a contentious issue. Lord … Continue reading
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