Richard Jewell
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title:
Richard Jewell
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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 discovered a backpack containing three pipe bombs on the park grounds and helped evacuate the area before the bomb exploded, saving many people from injury or death. For months afterward he was suspected of planting the bomb, resulting in adverse publicity that "came to symbolize the excesses of law
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American law enforcement officer (1962–2007)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell
date created:
2005-04-09T19:01:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T05:34:01Z
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