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Centennial Olympic Park: The Guard

For three days he was the man who saved lives at the Olympics. Then the headline changed.

Collection: Atlanta · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Centennial Olympic Park lawn and downtown skyline
Centennial Olympic Park lawn and downtown skyline · Don McCulley, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

Two FBI agents came to Richard Jewell's apartment and asked him to help them make a training film about interrogating witnesses. It was 30 July 1996. Three days earlier, Jewell had been a security guard in this park during the Olympics. He saw a backpack under a bench and told state officers, and he and other guards began moving people away. At 1:20 in the morning it exploded. Alice Hawthorne, 44, from Albany, Georgia, was killed.

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Visiting

Centennial Olympic Park, downtown Atlanta. A public park, free to walk through. Check opening hours and event closures before you go.

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