-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: The Arizona Project Michael Wendland©1977 ISBN 0-8362-0728-9 Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Inc. 6700 Squibb Rd. Misson Kansas 66202 276 pps. - first edition - out-of-print New revised edition - available amazon.com Paperback, 304pp. ISBN: 0945165021 Blue Sky Press, Incorporated June 1988 --[16]-- Epilogue November 6, 1977—It was a lousy Sunday, cold and rainy, and there was little traffic in downtown Phoenix. The weather drastically cut attendance on the last day of the 1977 Arizona State Fair. On the way to the Maricopa County Courthouse, George Weisz thought of the spinning and gaudy lights of the 1976 version of the fair. He remembered standing in Suite 1939 of the Adams, watching those lights with a dozen supercharged reporters during the height of the Arizona Project. It seemed impossible that an entire year had passed. But the IRE team was long gone from Phoenix. Only he and student intern Carol Jackson remained in Phoenix. And they were together on this Sunday. Weisz and Jackson began the day with bagels and cream cheese in the pressroom of the Maricopa County Courthouse. "We can't forget tradition," said Weisz, referring to the Sunday morning bagel feast the IRE team had indulged in during the project. Jackson, who had graduated from Arizona State University over the summer, was now working full time as a reporter for the Associated Press in Phoenix. Weisz, still between jobs after briefly working for a legislative crime commission over the summer, was in the courthouse as an unofficial observer for the team. They were covering final jury deliberations in the Don Bolles murder trial. What Jackson wrote that Sunday was carried under her byline by the wire service into the city rooms of the other IRE reporters across the country. Weisz wrote nothing. Instead, he went through a pocketful of coins in a phone booth in the courthouse, calling a dozen of the other former team members to tell them firsthand what had happened that day. Armed with Jackson's wire copy and Weisz's telephone account, most of the remaining team members wrote their own stories for their own newspapers. It felt good. A Maricopa County jury, after five-and-a-half days' deliberation, had convicted James Robison and Max Dunlap of two charges, conspiracy to commit murder and murder, for the killing of Don Bolles seventeen months before. Arizona Attorney General Bruce Babbitt, in a press conference after the verdict had been returned, said he would ask for the death penalty. "We don't have all the conspirators yet," said Babbitt, "but we will. The investigation will continue. There will be other arrests." The trial of the two men, which lasted four months, saw a number of allegations raised. Adamson had remained adamant that he had been hired to kill the reporter on behalf of Kemper Marley. Convicted land swindler Howard Woodall, a surprise witness for the state, testified that Robison had told him that Bolles was killed because he had uncovered evidence on some sort of loan swindle involving Marley, Harry Rosenzweig, San Diego financier C. Arnholt Smith, and Bob and Barry Goldwater. "We've got some new information as a result of the trial that gives us more avenues of investigation leading toward more conspirators," said Jon Sellers, the Phoenix police detective who had been assigned to the Bolles case. It was the end of one chapter, and the beginning of a new one. And the IRE reporters, who had been so much a pan of the first chapter, eagerly awaited the next, though they would have no more input into its writing. For it was up to the people of the State of Arizona now. The media had done their job. Arizona's ills had been exposed, and justice, though not yet complete, was slowly being done. It was the future that was the story now. pps. 265-266 --[fini]-- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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