1996 atlanta olympics bombing
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The suspect : an Olympic bombing, the FBI, the media, and Richard Jewell, the man caught in the middle / Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen
Alexander, Kent | Salwen, Kevin
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On July 27, , a hapless former cop turned hyper-vigilant security guard named Richard Jewell spotted a suspicious bag in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park, the town square of the Summer Games. Inside was a bomb, the largest of its kind in FBI and ATF history. Minutes later, the bomb remotely detonated by the attacker amid a crowd of 50, people. But thanks to Jewell, it only killed two and wounded , not the hundreds who authorities estimated could have otherwise died. With the eyes of the world on Atlanta, the games continued. But the pressure to find the bomber was intense. Within 72 hours, Jewell went from the hero to the FBI’s main suspect, a false accusation that forever changed his life and let the true bomber roam free to strike again. In a triumph of reporting and access, Kent Ale
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Eric Rudolph
The Crime
On July, 27, Eric Rudolph planted a bomb in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, where thousands had gathered to celebrate the Olympics. The resulting explosion killed one and injured over Rudolph carried out three additional bombing incidents between and in Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama, killing one and injuring over Two of the Atlanta bombings had secondary devices, timed to detonate after law enforcement officers had arrived on the scene.
The Investigation
A task force comprised of ATF, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Alabama Bureau of Investigation, Atlanta (Georgia) and Birmingham (Alabama) Police Departments and other local agencies gathered evidence and coordinated investigative leads. ATF provided forensic examination of all explosives evidence, including reconstruction of each device and identification of the components. Shortly after the Birmingham bombing, investigators identified Eric Rudolph as
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Centennial Olympic Park bombing
Atlanta bombing at the Summer Olympics
The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terroristpipe bombing attack on Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, July 27, , during the Summer Olympics. The blast directly killed one individ and injured others; another person later died of a heart attack. It was the first of four bombings committed bygd Eric Rudolph in a terrorism campaign against the U.S. government which he accused of championing "the ideals of global socialism" and "abortion on demand".[1][2] Security guard Richard Jewell discovered the bomb before detonation, notified Georgia Bureau of Investigation officers, and began clearing spectators out of the park along with other security guards.
After the bombing, Jewell was initially investigated as a suspect by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and news media aggressively focused on him as the presumed culprit when he was actually innocent. In O