Atlanta Olympic Bombing

A tragedy in Atlanta in 1996 sparks a nationwide manhunt that will last for years. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
An Olympic event will discuss as we take a byte
out of history with Ingles Markets. In July of nineteen
ninety six, the Summer Olympics took root in Atlanta, Georgia.
Among the games, there were many events offered to the
Olympic fans. One was a rock concert by the band
Jack Mack and the Heart Attack. At one twenty am
on July twenty seventh, a pipe bomb exploded at the
concert in Centennial Park, the festival village of the Olympics.

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More than one hundred people were injured and one mother
who brought her daughter to see the concert, was killed.
The bomb was a pipe bomb created with smokeless powder
and masonry. Nail's security guard, Richard Jewel, was the first
spot that then suspect pack. He alerted officials and began
to evacuate the area. During the evacuation, the bomb exploded.
Jewel would eventually become the FBI's key suspect, but after

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a lot of investigation, was cleared of all wrongdoing. After
three more bombings with similarities over the next two years,
the FBI focused on Eric Rudolph. Rudolph was captured in
two thousand and three and pled guilty in two thousand
and five. This has been a bite out of history
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