The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a pipe bombing attack on Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, on July 27, 1996, during the Summer Olympics. The blast directly killed one
Bomb fragment mark on Olympic Park sculpture
The grandstand at Centennial Olympic Park
Memorial to the victims of the bombing at the base of the sound tower
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Richard Allensworth Jewell was an American security guard and law enforcement officer who alerted police during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He
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…terrorist campaign against the U.S. government which he accused of championing "the ideals of global socialism" and "abortion on demand". 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…
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A piece of shrapnel from the bombing imprinted into a sculpture at the Centennial Olympic Park