Patrick Millikin welcomed Jeremy Duda to The Poisoned Pen. Duda’s book is about Phoenix and Arizona history, Murder in the Fourth Estate: The Assassination of Journalist Don Bolles. There are lots of theories and conspiracy theories about this case, according to Millikin. You can order a copy through the Webstore, https://tinyurl.com/352s329v
Here’s the summary of Murder in the Fourth Estate.
“They finally got me… Emprise…the Mafia…John Adamson. Find him.” Investigative reporter Don Bolles used his final words to name the people he believed had set the car bomb that had left him dying in a hotel parking lot in midtown Phoenix.
In his fourteen years as one of Arizona’s top reporters, Bolles took on the Mafia, land fraud kingpins, and corrupt politicians. And someone wanted him silenced. Murder in the Fourth Estate is the first definitive account of the case, which is the most infamous assassination of a journalist in American history.
Jeremy Duda is an award-winning journalist for Axios in Phoenix who’s spent the bulk of his 22-year career covering Arizona politics and government. He’s worked for the Arizona Mirror, Arizona Capitol Times, Daily Herald of Provo, Utah, and the Hobbs (New Mexico) News-Sun, and he’s been a contributor for the Economist, History Today and the Washington Post, where he contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning project on the Jan. 6 attack. He’s also the author of If This Be Treason: The American Rogues and Rebels Who Walked the Line Between Dissent and Betrayal (2016).
Enjoy Duda’s discussion of Don Bolles and the assassination.