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Jul 27, 2022 · Twenty-six years after a bomb went off at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, NBCLA anchor Colleen Williams shares what it was like to cover such terrifying breaking news from the ground near the explosion.
Jul 28, 1996 · A bomb shook the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and while the Games continued, things have never been the same. Michael Bamberger. The Centennial Olympics began with symbols of peace, with Muhammad Ali raising a single flame to the stars. One week and one hour later, at 1:25 yesterday morning, the Centennial Olympics came to a ghastly and sudden stop ...
Nov 26, 2019 · Memories of the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta are tinged by the bomb exploded in Centennial Olympic Park July 27. 1996. Instead of a celebration of international unity through sports, the focus ...
Olympic Park Bombing. Another domestic terrorism incident shocked the nation just a year after the Oklahoma City Bombing. In July 1996, the United States was hosting the Olympic games in Atlanta, Georgia. On July 27, while people were gathered in Centennial Olympic Park, a 911 call came in threatening to bomb the park.
Jun 30, 2021 · By Lynnette Southwood / June 30, 2021 10:00 am EST. An act of domestic terrorism interrupted the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and called attention to excessive police and media tactics. On July 27, 1996, spectators gathered to enjoy the time-honored celebration of global sports and competition.
Jul 28, 1996 · July 28, 1996 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. ATLANTA, JULY 27 -- The FBI launched a massive investigation today of the pre-dawn bombing in Centennial Olympic Park that left two people dead and more than a ...
Jul 26, 2021 · This is the federal government’s mock up of the pipe bomb Eric Rudolph built and detonated during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. (Credit: Shores-Vance Inn of Court, Birmingham, AL) “Governments and corporations had invested close to $1 billion dollars in the Atlanta games. As a. simple American, I despised these elitists.
