As runners and walkers head out for the annual Tony's Run in Dillingham, we've posted some interviews and a poem from the last year as we've remembered Tony 24 years after he was killed in the line of duty.
In 2015, we spoke with former DPD officer Terry Rogers about the night his friend and colleague Anthony Jones was killed in the line of duty in Dillingham. In part one of that conversation, below, Rogers talked about that night and about Tony. In part two, he shared about his efforts to reconnect and express forgiveness for Tony's killer, Eugene Maud, who was up for parole.
Those conversations, aired last September, sparked a lot of feedback. The majority of people who spoke with us appreciated revisiting the incident, and hearing of Rogers' efforts to promote Maud's parole. Eight months later, Tony's daughter Antoinette Fields, contacted us by email. She had found those interviews online and was initially disturbed by them. We connected Terry and Toni to speak by phone for the first time, and they let us listen in. Their powerful conversation, which aired earlier this summer just ahead of Father's Day, is included below as well.
Additionally, on the anniversary of his death, Marilyn Rosene shared a poem written by Tony Jones' widow Trudie five years after his death.
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