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Kali

(55,007 posts) Mon Sep 1, 2014, 11:55 AM Sep 2014

Source: The Republic | azcentral.com

Charles Bowden, an author and hard-boiled investigative journalist who often wrote about the American Southwest, died Saturday in Las Cruces, N.M., where he had moved from the Tucson area. He was 69.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/books/2014/08/31/author-charles-bowden-dies/14908059/

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Author, journalist Charles Bowden dies at 69 (Original Post) Kali Sep 2014 OP

Mr. Bowden wrote about Gary Webb and CIA crack history... Octafish Sep 2014 #2

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1. A great resource and writer is gone. I was stunned when I read "Blood Orchid"....

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 12:16 PM

Sep 2014

...and appalled by his gut-wrenching work around the war on drugs and the Mexican drug wars.

Charles Bowden was the voice of the Southwest.

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2. Mr. Bowden wrote about Gary Webb and CIA crack history...

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 05:55 PM

Sep 2014

http://www.esquire.com/features/pariah-gary-webb-0998

Both great writers were among the bravest of the brave, bucking the armada of professional liars.