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The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a
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ing attack on
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in
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,
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, on July 27, 1996, during the
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. The blast directly killed one person and injured 111 others; another person later died of a heart attack. It was the first of four bombings committed by
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. Security guard
Richard Jewell Richard Allensworth Jewell (born Richard White; December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American security guard and law enforcement officer who alerted police during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlant ...
discovered the bomb before detonation and began clearing spectators out of the park. After the bombing, Jewell was initially investigated as a suspect by the
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and news media aggressively focused on him as the presumed culprit when he was actually innocent. In October 1996, the FBI declared Jewell was no longer a person of interest. Following three more bombings in 1997 and 1998, Rudolph was identified by the FBI as the suspect. In 2003, Rudolph was arrested, and in 2005 he agreed to plead guilty to avoid a potential death sentence. Rudolph was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for his crimes.


Bombing

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was designed as the "
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" of the Olympics, and thousands of spectators had gathered for a late
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by the band
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. Sometime after midnight, Rudolph planted a green U.S. military ALICE pack ( field pack) containing three
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s filled with
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surrounded by masonry nails, which caused most of the human injuries, underneath a bench near the base of a concert sound tower. He then left the area. The pack had a directed charge and could have done more damage but it was slightly moved at some point. It used a
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plate as a directional device. Investigators later tied the
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and Otherside Lounge bombs together with this first device because all were propelled by
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dynamite, used an alarm clock and Rubbermaid containers, and contained steel plates. FBI Agent David (Woody) Johnson received notice that a call to 911 was placed about 18 minutes before the bomb detonated warning that a bomb would go off at the park within 30 minutes by "a white male with an indistinguishable American accent". Security guard
Richard Jewell Richard Allensworth Jewell (born Richard White; December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American security guard and law enforcement officer who alerted police during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlant ...
discovered the bag underneath a bench and alerted
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officers. Tom Davis, of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, called in a
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, including members of the
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and
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to investigate the suspicious bag, which was leaning against the 40-ft
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sound tower. Jewell and other security guards began clearing the immediate area so that the bomb squad could investigate the suspicious package. The bomb detonated two to three minutes into the evacuation, before all spectators could leave the area. The first one who gave the news live worldwide was the Italian reporter Ezio Luzzi, who was in Atlanta as a correspondent of Rai (Radio Televisione Italiana) for the Olympic Games that were taking place at that time. Moreover, Luzzi has remembered many times in his books and interview, what happened that day: "I was there, coordinating the Rai expedition and the explosion happened while I was crossing the square. The blow threw me to the ground without injuring me. I got up thinking only of going back to the studio and telling the story: I arrived before CNN, before anyone else". Video of the explosion from a short distance away was captured by Robert Gee, a tourist from California, and later aired by
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. The sound of the explosion was also recorded by a news crew from the German public television network ARD, who were interviewing American swimmer
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at a nearby hotel.


Victims

Alice Hawthorne, 44, of
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, was killed in the explosion when a nail from the bomb penetrated her skull. A cameraman with
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, Melih Uzunyol, 40, who had "survived coverage of wars in Azerbaijan, Bosnia and the Persian Gulf," suffered a fatal heart attack while running to the scene. The bomb wounded 111 others.


Reaction

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denounced the explosion as an "evil act of terror" and vowed to do everything possible to track down and punish those responsible. Despite the event, officials and athletes agreed that the
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should continue as planned.


Aftermath


Richard Jewell falsely implicated

Though Richard Jewell was hailed as a hero for his role in discovering the bomb and moving spectators to safety,
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organizations later reported that Jewell was considered a potential
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in the bombing, four days afterward, and shortly after a brief, mistaken detainment of two juvenile persons of interest at the Kensington MARTA station. Jewell, at the time, was unknown to authorities, and a
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profile made sense to
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investigators after they were contacted by his former employer at
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. Jewell was named as a
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, although he was never arrested. Jewell's home was searched, his background exhaustively investigated, and he became the subject of intense media interest and surveillance, including a media siege of his home. After Jewell was exonerated, he initiated
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s against
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, ''
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'', and other media entities, and insisted on a formal apology from them. Jewell's lawsuit accused
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President Raymond Cleere of falsely describing Jewell as a "badge-wearing zealot" who "would write epic police reports for minor infractions". The cases were later settled after 15 years of litigation with the
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decision in July 2012, that the newspapers accurately reported that Jewell was the key suspect in the bombing, and emphasized he was only a suspect and the potential issues in the law enforcement case against him. Richard Jewell died on August 29, 2007, at the age of 44 from serious medical problems related to
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Richard Jewell Richard Allensworth Jewell (born Richard White; December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American security guard and law enforcement officer who alerted police during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlant ...
'', a
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. It was written by Billy Ray, based on the 1997 article "American Nightmare," and the book ''The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle'' (2019) by Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen.Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen (2019)
''The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle''
Abrams, .
Jewell is played by
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. A TV series, ''
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'', also called ''ManHunt: Deadly Games'', dedicated season 2 (2020) to the story of Richard Jewell. Jewell is played by
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.


Conviction of Eric Robert Rudolph

After Jewell was cleared, the FBI admitted it had no other suspects, and the investigation made little progress until early 1997, when two more bombings took place, at an
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and a
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, both in the Atlanta area. Similarities in the bomb design allowed investigators to conclude that this was the work of the same perpetrator. One more bombing of an abortion clinic, this time in
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, which killed a policeman working as a security guard and seriously injured nurse
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, gave the FBI crucial clues including a partial license plate. The plate and other clues led the FBI to identify Eric Robert Rudolph, a carpenter and handyman, as a suspect. Rudolph eluded capture and became a
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; officials believed he had disappeared into the rugged southern
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, familiar from his youth. On May 5, 1998, the FBI named him as one of its ten most wanted fugitives and offered a $1 million reward for information leading directly to his arrest. On October 14, 1998, the
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formally named Rudolph as its suspect in all four bombings. After more than five years on the run, Rudolph was arrested on May 31, 2003, in
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, by a
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police officer, Jeffrey Scott Postell of the Murphy Police Department behind a
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store at about 4 a.m.; Postell, on routine patrol, had originally suspected a burglary in progress. On April 8, 2005, the government announced Rudolph would plead guilty to all four bombings, including the Centennial Olympic Park attack. Rudolph is serving four life terms without the possibility of parole at
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supermax prison in
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. Rudolph's justification for the bombings according to his April 13, 2005 statement, was political: :In the summer of 1996, the world converged upon Atlanta for the Olympic Games. Under the protection and auspices of the regime in Washington, millions of people came to celebrate the ideals of global
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. Multinational corporations spent billions of dollars, and Washington organized an army of security to protect these best of all games. Even though the conception and purpose of the so-called Olympic movement is to promote the values of global socialism, as perfectly expressed in the song "
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" by
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, which was the theme of the 1996 Games even though the purpose of the Olympics is to promote these ideals, the purpose of the attack on July 27 was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand. :The plan was to force the cancellation of the Games, or at least create a state of insecurity to empty the streets around the venues and thereby eat into the vast amounts of money invested. On August 22, 2005, Rudolph, who had previously received a
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for the Alabama bombing, was sentenced to three concurrent terms of life imprisonment without
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for the Georgia incidents. Rudolph read a statement at his sentencing in which he apologized to the victims and families only of the Centennial Park bombing, reiterating that he was angry at the government and hoped the Olympics would be canceled. At his sentencing, fourteen other victims or relatives gave statements, including the widower of Alice Hawthorne. Rudolph's former sister-in-law, Deborah Rudolph, talked about the irony of Rudolph's plea deal putting him in custody of a government he hates. "Knowing that he's living under government control for the rest of his life, I think that's worse to him than death," she told the ''
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'' in 2005. As reported in an April 8, 2013 Alabama blog post, in February 2013, LuLu.com published Rudolph's book, ''Between the Lines of Drift: The Memoirs of a Militant'', and in April 2013 the U.S. Attorney General seized his $200 royalty to help pay off the $1 million that Rudolph owes in restitution to the State of Alabama.


See also

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List of terrorist incidents, 1996 This is a timeline of incidents in 1996 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Guidelines *To be included, entrie ...
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Munich massacre The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack carried out during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian people, Palestinian militant organization Black September Organization, Black September, who i ...
*
Domestic terrorism in the United States Domestic terrorism in the United States consists of incidents which are confirmed to be domestic terrorist acts. These attacks are considered domestic because they occurred within the United States and they were carried out by U.S. citizens and ...
*
Boston Marathon bombing The Boston Marathon bombing was a domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Two terrorists, brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs, w ...
, another bombing at an American sporting event


References


External links


FBI Centennial Park Bombing page
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, from December 2, 1998. *
FBI Sets Up Toll-Free Information Hot-line After Atlanta Blast
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