Centennial Park Bombing

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by Ashley Etcheverry2 views·Updated May 15, 2021
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  1. It's my project on the centennial park bombing.
  2. So before the bombing, this all took place in the
  3. Summer Olympics in 1996, which was located in Atlanta Georgia.
  4. This happened during a free concert which was held the
  5. day after the sports humans happened.
  6. There was a comment ahead of time when the bomb
  7. detonated out what 20 that was warning the staff, But
  8. actually the bomb went off before the colour said it
  9. would, which is why you wrote suspicion as to why
  10. the 911 call came through and others like law enforcement
  11. officers, were indirectly targeted.
  12. So the cow had one message before the Bomb was
  13. supposed to go off, which was, there was a bomb
  14. in Centennial Park, you have 30 minutes and this call
  15. was traced to be found that it happened near the
  16. Centennial Park.
  17. And so it was more easier, easy for police to
  18. narrow down who it was and to be aware of
  19. where the call came from.
  20. There were 15,000 people that were present in the concert
  21. and many of those were in the AT&T.
  22. Building, but luckily they were able to be cleared out
  23. by security and later on there's one person that was
  24. especially involved in this event that I will be talking
  25. about. So the bomb was discovered in a black backpack
  26. underneath the bench and this was near the main music
  27. stage where the concert was held.
  28. The backpack was found by the security guard who is
  29. named Richard Jewel and he question one of the locals
  30. that were there enjoying the concert and when the local
  31. claimed that the black backpack wasn't his.
  32. Richard took it in and it was deemed as a
  33. bomb. This handmade bomb was surrounded by three masonry nails
  34. and was a handmade pipe bomb that was stuffed into
  35. a tupperware container.
  36. The bomb was set to explode in 55 minutes, sadly
  37. there were two people that were killed which was, which
  38. were Alice Hawthorne and a Turkish journalist, Malala Yousafzai neo,
  39. who was running to the scene sadly Alice Hawthorne died
  40. of a heart attack and there were more than 100
  41. people that were injured.
  42. There were two suspects that went to questioning which was
  43. Richard, as I mentioned earlier, who was the security guard
  44. working at the time of the bomb and who helped
  45. get all the people out before more damage was caused
  46. and as well as found the bomb and eric robert
  47. Rudolph, who was a well convicted criminal that was known
  48. for bombings that happened in Atlanta and Birmingham.
  49. The one that happened in Birmingham was the abortion clinic
  50. and a gay club was the one that happened in
  51. Atlanta. So Richard was later found innocent and was deemed
  52. a hero instead of his past title hero turned villain.
  53. This was because there were many articles that depicted him
  54. of planting the bomb and accused him because he was
  55. mostly related to the event.
  56. Rudolph was found guilty and other explosives he hid in
  57. a shed were discovered as well as he was charged
  58. with other crimes that I mentioned earlier which were the
  59. bombings. He was on the FBI's most wanted and hit
  60. from the authorities for five years, which he did this
  61. by living up in the mountains and the explosives were
  62. hit during at that time as well and they were
  63. in a very hidden place that nobody would be able
  64. to find them and Rudolph as well wouldn't be able
  65. to be founded until this event happened.
  66. Rudolph, it was revealed that he actually pleaded guilty and
  67. his motive was to embarrass the United States on the
  68. world stage for legalizing abortion.
  69. Right now.
  70. He is serving four life sentences in a Supermax federal
  71. prison near Florence colorado and he is titled as an
  72. american terrorist and known for various bombings.
  73. Um sadly Richard was later, he later passed away due
  74. to personal issues after the bombing.
  75. Um but luckily they're actors in a movie that I
  76. will be discussing towards the end, that depicted the event
  77. and played a security guard as Richard did when he
  78. was evolved involved.
  79. He has a film series that tells his story about
  80. this event and after rough was put to court sadly
  81. many were still questioning Richard and on his side this
  82. impact will not be forgotten because the olympic park sculpture
  83. has a bomb fragment which can be seen in the
  84. picture to the left and the films I was talking
  85. about is Richard jewel, which is the main movie that
  86. depicts the whole event and manhunt, which is a series
  87. of episodes that contained Events that criminals did and one
  88. episodes, one episode has the centennial park bombing, and as
  89. well it talks about Richard and Rudolph.