Visiting Arizona for a few days, looked in the Sunday paper
and recalled the tragic story
of the journalist killed over forty years ago
by a car bomb in a hotel parking lot.

Richard Nelson Bolles, author of the book series
What Color is your Parachute,
had a journalist brother named Don Bolles,
and it is the latter who was targeted as a "hit."

Forty years on, people are still sorting out this killing.
Don Bolles was investigating corruption in high places,
and thus he made some enemies there.
Here's the latest reminiscence of the tragedy.

the story that haunted Don Bolles Arizona Republic