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Speaker 1: Welcome to Atlanta's Olympic stadiums and the opening ceremony of

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Speaker 1: these sins Hey Olympic Games.

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Speaker 2: Back in ninety six, Atlanta was booming with excitement around

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Speaker 2: hosting the Olympic Games for the first time. Our city

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Speaker 2: was stepping into center stage. What no one could have

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Speaker 2: predicted is that it would be remembered for something else.

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Speaker 2: Here is your bomb car. You have thirty minutes. Two

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Speaker 2: people died that night, more than one hundred injured, and

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Speaker 2: the bombings they were far from over.

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Speaker 1: The two bombs an hour apart that rocked an abortion

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Speaker 1: pending in Atlanta. I sat down just for a second

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Speaker 1: and noticed a bright flash and then a tremendous last.

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Speaker 1: Two more bombings, this time at an Atlanta nightclub catering

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Speaker 1: to lesbians. I saw as soon as I turned the corner,

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Speaker 1: basically someone bleeding out.

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Speaker 2: There was really little doubt that we were dealing with

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Speaker 2: the serial bomber. The FBI would lead a five year

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Speaker 2: manhunt in search of a fugitive willing to kill for

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Speaker 2: a cause. But this story isn't his story. It's a

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Speaker 2: human story, one that I've become entangled with. And it

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Speaker 2: turns out I'm not the only one.

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Speaker 1: It kind of gave me a feeling of pending doom

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Speaker 1: so many sleepless nights.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I felt anything at the time, or

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Speaker 2: I didn't let myself think about it. It didn't feel real.

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Speaker 1: The death threats that we subsequently received for years threatened

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Speaker 1: the lives of our kids.

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Speaker 2: These chaotic events tied our lives together in ways no

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Speaker 2: one expected, jeopardizing the ground beneath our feet and forcing

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Speaker 2: us to explore the gray areas between right and wrong,

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Speaker 2: life and death. Our once ordinary lives changed forever. From

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Speaker 2: Tenderfoot TV and iHeart Podcasts, I'm Cola Cassio and this

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Speaker 2: is flashpoint.

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Speaker 1: Why are you still alive?

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Speaker 2: Looking after? So I can say, come in July twenty

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