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Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist convicted for a series of bombings across the Southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured over 100 others, including the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
- May 5, 1998
- September 19, 1966 (age 57), Merritt Island, Florida, U.S.
- Bob Randolph, Robert Randolph, Bobby Rudolph
Far-right extremism. The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terrorist pipe bombing attack on Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, July 27, 1996, during the Summer Olympics. The blast directly killed one person and injured 111 others; another person later died of a heart attack.
- July 27, 1996, 1:20 am (UTC-4)
- Pipe bomb
- 2 (1 directly, 1 indirectly)
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Sep 22, 2016 · On July, 27, Eric Rudolph planted a bomb in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, where thousands had gathered to celebrate the Olympics. The resulting explosion killed one and injured over 100. Rudolph carried out three additional bombing incidents between 1996 and 1998 in Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama, killing one and injuring over ...
Between 1996 and 1998, bombs exploded four times in Atlanta and Birmingham, killing two and injuring hundreds and setting off what turned out to be a five-year manhunt for the suspected bomber...
Mar 29, 2024 · (Mar. 29, 2024) (Show more) Atlanta Olympic Games bombing of 1996, bombing that occurred at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, resulting in two deaths and more than 100 injuries.
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Jul 27, 2016 · The FBI charged the real bomber, Eric Rudolph, in 1998 after linking the attack to similar ones at a gay nightclub and at abortion clinics. Rudolph fled, setting off one of the largest manhunts...
A little less than two years after the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, in January 1998, Rudolph killed again. This time it was an off-duty policeman during the bombing of a Birmingham abortion clinic that also badly injured a nurse who worked there. (Rudolph later confessed to bombing another Atlanta-area abortion clinic and a gay bar in Atlanta.)
