{"id":474,"date":"2007-08-29T21:31:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T01:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/29\/remember-richard-jewell\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T21:31:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T01:31:56","slug":"remember-richard-jewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/29\/remember-richard-jewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Richard Jewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Jewell, wrongly implicated in the bombing of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Obit-Jewell.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">died today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jewell, who was working as a sheriff&#8217;s deputy as recently as last year, was a security guard in 1996 at the Olympics in Atlanta. He was initially hailed as a hero for spotting a suspicious backpack in a park and moving people out of harm&#8217;s way just before a bomb exploded during a concert.<\/p>\n<p>The blast killed one and injured 111 others.<\/p>\n<p>Three days after the bombing, an unattributed report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution described him as &#8221;the focus&#8221; of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Other media, to varying degrees, also linked Jewell to the investigation and portrayed him as a loser and law-enforcement wannabe who may have planted the bomb so he would look like a hero when he discovered it later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I lived less than a mile from the bomb site, and had left the actual site only a couple of hours before the bomb exploded.\u00c2\u00a0 Like everyone else in Atlanta at the time, I was intensely focused on it.\u00c2\u00a0 And, also like everyone else, I soon became damn sure that Richard Jewell had done it, after listening to and reading all the reports.\u00c2\u00a0 Except:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eventually, the bomber turned out to be anti-government extremist <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/eric_robert_rudolph\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Eric Robert Rudolph.\">Eric Rudolph<\/a>, who also planted three other bombs in the Atlanta area and in Birmingham, Ala. Those explosives killed a police officer, maimed a nurse and injured several other people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember this, the next time you just &#8220;know&#8221; that someone did something.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sorry, Mr. Jewell.\u00c2\u00a0 We did you wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Jewell, wrongly implicated in the bombing of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, died today: Jewell, who was working as a sheriff&#8217;s deputy as recently as last year, was a security guard in 1996 at the Olympics in Atlanta. He was initially hailed as a hero for spotting a suspicious backpack in a park and moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}