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Injured. 111. Perpetrator. Eric Rudolph. Motive. 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 ...
- July 27, 1996, 1:20 am (UTC-4)
- Pipe bomb
- 2 (1 directly, 1 indirectly)
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...
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Mar 29, 2024 · On July 27, 1996, a single homemade pipe bomb left in a knapsack exploded amid a crowd of spectators in Centennial Olympic Park, near the main sites of the Olympic Games in Atlanta. The blast caused by the crude device killed one person and injured 112 others.
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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...
Jul 1, 2011 · Photograph by Gregory Miller. This article originally appeared in our July 2011 issue. As midnight approached on Friday, July 26, 1996, there were still 15,000 people crowding Centennial Olympic ...
Jul 24, 2012 · At about 1:20 a.m. on July 27, the Olympics were shaken by an attack. A bomb exploded at the social center of the Games, Centennial Olympic Park, a melting-pot entertainment area without the ...
Bombings. At age 29, Rudolph perpetrated the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, which occurred on July 27, 1996, during the 1996 Summer Olympics. He made two anonymous 911 calls, warning about the bomb before it detonated. [10] The blast killed one spectator and wounded 111 others. [11]
