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Speaker 1: It started with a backpack that contained a bomb. The

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Speaker 1: target the nineteen ninety six Summer Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Oh there are still hitting people were Russian people to medical.

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Speaker 1: I saw my mother on the ground, I got up, man,

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Speaker 1: I ran.

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Speaker 3: The days started with Katie Couric hiling Richard Jewell a savior,

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Speaker 3: but by the end of the day, Jewel was a

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Speaker 3: possible suspect.

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Speaker 1: While the media and the FBI focused on the wrong suspect,

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Speaker 1: a serial bomber planned his next more overtly political attacks.

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Speaker 1: Two abortion clinics and a lesbian bar.

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Speaker 3: We were rocked by a flash and a loud boom.

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Speaker 3: Where were you in the building and where was the explosion?

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Speaker 3: No one has claimed credit for these explosions.

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Speaker 2: Suddenly Atlanta's mayor thinks his city might be in the

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Speaker 2: sights of what he calls a deranged killer.

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Speaker 1: As the authorities embarked on what would become a year's

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Speaker 1: long manhunt, the victims of these attacks were left to

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Speaker 1: pick up the pieces, and the country found its e

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Speaker 1: facing down a long and brutal reckoning with a frightening

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Speaker 1: and growing threat far right homegrown religious terrorism.

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Speaker 4: We will track them down, we will bring them to justice.

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Speaker 4: We will see that they are punished.

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Speaker 1: From Tenderfoot TV and iHeart Podcasts. I'm Cola Cassio and

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Speaker 1: this is Flashpoint, Available July twenty fifth on Apple Podcasts.