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Speaker 3: Space Jaman fourth is independ instead.

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Speaker 4: The first night of the one hundredth anniversary of the

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Speaker 4: world's greatest sporting event, and no birthday party ever had

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Speaker 4: an invitation list White Light Welcome to Atlanta's Olympic Stadium.

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Speaker 5: Well, the Olympics were in Atlanta in nineteen ninety six,

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Speaker 5: and it was a really big gig for us. I

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Speaker 5: mean there was I don't know, forty fifty sixty thousand

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Speaker 1: Bill Bergman and Andrew Kastner are two members of the

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Speaker 1: band Jack Mack and the Heart Attack. They were slated

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Speaker 1: to perform ten nights in a row at the ninety

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Speaker 1: six Olympics Center stage the gig of a lifetime.

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Speaker 5: We rehearsed a special show just for that Olympic gig,

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Speaker 5: and every night we would come on after Travis Tritt

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Speaker 5: or Kenny Rodgers or all kinds of different people, and

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Speaker 5: we would play eleven at night to one in the morning.

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Speaker 6: But the sixth night of their run would be their last.

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Speaker 7: There was a lot of security to get backstage.

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Speaker 5: They ran us through inter pole. I mean I played

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Speaker 5: saxophone and the guy literally looked down my horn through

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Speaker 7: But anybody could get into the audience. I don't even

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Speaker 5: Well no, I mean you had fifty thousand people wearing

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Speaker 5: their backpacks into that park, and it was a ginormous stage,

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Speaker 5: and they had these two caterpillar looking things on each

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Speaker 5: and that's where they would show the videos. We were

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Speaker 5: seven stories up and we're playing our set and we're grooving,

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Speaker 7: And then we were getting towards the end of the

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Speaker 7: set and we did an original song called I Walked Alone,

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Speaker 7: And it was right after the song ended and our

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, are you still out there? Yeah, that's what

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Speaker 6: I'll talk about. So we got caught it to the

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Speaker 8: But you know what, see what about now we had them,

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Speaker 6: Privilege of working with this season, and that's when the

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Speaker 7: We just froze in place. The whole band just froze.

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Speaker 7: We didn't know what to do, and then somebody came

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Speaker 5: It was instantaneous pandemonium, like the world rarely sees.

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Speaker 1: Some ideas are so explosive they changed the world, but

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Speaker 1: sometimes they jeopardize the very ground we stand on, leaving

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Speaker 1: ordinary lives in their wake, rippling out for generations. I'm

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Speaker 1: Cola Cassio and this is Flashpoint, Episode one, the Eyes

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Speaker 1: of the World. In the summer of ninety six, Atlanta

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Speaker 6: Atlanta was a bustling hub of Americana.

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Speaker 1: We were the mecca of hip hop, the home of

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Speaker 1: the braves, and that summer we were hosting the Centennial

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Speaker 1: Olympic Games.

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Speaker 4: Ten years ago, bringing the Olympics to this city was

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Speaker 4: the improbable, some would say lappable motion of a local

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Speaker 4: But pain is from an ambitious city where grand notions

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Speaker 4: are not dismissed.

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Speaker 3: Now has its games, and it.

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Speaker 4: Also has its opportunity to find itself for the world.

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Speaker 6: Atlanta is unique.

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Speaker 1: It's not movie famous like New York or la It's

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Speaker 1: not a city people dream of living in. It's hot,

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Speaker 6: It's a place where I just think people can be themselves.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this year, I found myself downtown just past midnight,

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Speaker 1: it's good to be back home. Atlanta is my home.

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Speaker 6: For reasons you'll come to understand.

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Speaker 1: I've always been obsessed with the bombing at the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: the ripple effects of that summer, everything that happened in

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Speaker 1: the following years, all the lesser known parts of the story.

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Speaker 1: But back in ninety six, with the eyes of the

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Speaker 1: city too busy to hate, we had finally arrived in

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Speaker 6: It was our time.

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Speaker 9: As an anchor reporter. For thirty seven years, I covered

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Speaker 9: all kinds of things. My name is Monica Kaufman Pearson.

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Speaker 9: I am a former reporter and anchor with WSB Television,

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Speaker 9: and I was there in September nineteen ninety when they said.

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Speaker 10: The International Olympic Committee as awarded the nineteen ninety six

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Speaker 9: And I can still see to this day, Mayor Maynard

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Speaker 9: from ear to ear. The place just broke out, I mean, screams, tears,

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Speaker 3: People went bonkers. I'm Keent Alexander.

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Speaker 11: I was the United States Attorney in the Northern District

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Speaker 11: of Georgia, so technically that made me the chief federal

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Speaker 11: law enforcement officer. During the Olympics, I was an underground

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Speaker 3: Was the first thing in the morning. Many of the

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Speaker 11: Of the Atlantic Constitution had this icon on a huge

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Speaker 11: tyke it's Atlanta than one of them actually said as

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Speaker 11: a subtitle, city explodes in thrill of victory, which it

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Speaker 1: With a one point seven billion dollar price tag, the

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Speaker 1: city of Atlanta had under six years to transform into

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Speaker 1: a worthy host city. The Olympics hosted millions of attendees

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Speaker 1: and span twenty nine facilities, including five new venues, plus

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Speaker 1: serve as a congregating spot for the general public, Centennial

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Speaker 1: Olympic Park. On July nineteenth, the date finally arrived. Opening ceremonies,

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Speaker 1: the one where Muhammad ad Leave valiantly raises shaking torch

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Speaker 3: I look it, Spohalid Ali. What apoment.

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Speaker 1: But less than ten days after that iconic moment, the

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Speaker 1: to fuck it all up. July twenty seventh, nineteen ninety six,

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Speaker 1: twelve forty five am. The music is blasting, people are partying,

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Speaker 1: Everyone's enjoying themselves. At Centennial Park, Georgia, Bureau of Investigation

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Speaker 1: agent Tom Davis was walking next to the Light and

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Speaker 12: I was approached by a young man named Richard Jewele,

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Speaker 12: a security guard there for the NBC tower. Richard explained

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Speaker 12: to me that he was having problems with intoxicated individuals

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Speaker 12: throwing beer cans into the tower and we asked for

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Speaker 12: he looked down and pointed to an army top backpack

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Speaker 1: Then at twelve fifty eight am, a nine one one

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Speaker 1: operator answered a call, A turn.

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Speaker 12: Of your bomb and nail park and you have a.

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Speaker 1: Burning Here's an actual recording of the nine to one

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Speaker 1: one operator trying to contact the Atlanta Police Department command center.

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Speaker 1: First she got a bit signal, then after three minutes

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Speaker 13: I just got this man call talking about it because

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Speaker 14: Oh lord, yea.

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Speaker 1: At the time of the Games, many of the venues

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Speaker 6: So if you need to look it up, it simply

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Speaker 8: It didn't exist, Okay, way apart, and you put it

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Speaker 1: No, this is why information about the bomb threat never

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Speaker 12: So I told Richard we would just follow our protocol,

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Speaker 12: This was a very popular part of the park. There

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Speaker 1: Shortly after one am. The diagnostic team comprised of FBI

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Speaker 1: and ATF agents. We're dispatched to Tom and Richard's location.

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Speaker 1: Here's Richard on sixty minutes. We'recalling.

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Speaker 6: What happened when one of the ATF agents went to

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Speaker 15: He crawled under the bench and with his pen light,

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Speaker 15: he was laying flat on his stomach and he was

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Speaker 16: I was just a rookie. It's a rookie cop. And

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Speaker 6: When the bomb went off.

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Speaker 19: Heard one of my people on the radio call in

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Speaker 1: This is Fallen Stubbs speaking to CNN in two thousand

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Speaker 6: How could someone do that? And why how does a

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Speaker 1: By daybreak, the news was global and the Centennial Olympic

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Speaker 20: The bombing gets Centennial Olympic Park this morning was an

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Speaker 20: Let me say finally that an act of vicious terror

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Speaker 20: That is not the American way.

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Speaker 1: With increased security contributes to the victims, the games would

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Speaker 21: Well, just moments ago, the FBI went up the steps

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Speaker 19: Hey did he act? I of course, we did a

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Speaker 6: Now is Richard Jewell.

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Speaker 22: The security The day started with Katie Kurk hailing Richard

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Speaker 22: Jewell a savior, but by the end of the day

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Speaker 22: Jewel was a possible suspect. Did he crave the limelight?

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Speaker 22: After the bombing, Jewel approached the network seeking publicity a

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Speaker 22: sign psychiatrist say of the hero syndrome.

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Speaker 1: For good reason, the Centennial Olympic Games had to go on.

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Speaker 1: But for that to happen, the public needed to feel safe.

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Speaker 1: They needed to believe that they were in good hands,

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Speaker 1: that the FBI was in control. By marking Jewel as

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Speaker 1: the prime suspect, the FBI was carefully indicating that not

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Speaker 1: only did they have their guy, but also there was

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Speaker 1: no threat of additional attacks.

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Speaker 17: I did do a story on the reopening of the park,

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Speaker 17: which became a celebration with music and prayer, any resilience,

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Speaker 17: and a promise that this was not going to stop

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Speaker 17: the Atlanta Olympics from continuing.

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Speaker 12: I think it's great bark pulgas to us, and we'd

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Speaker 12: capable of anybody to take it away from us.

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Speaker 3: I'll be watching for a package that's unattended.

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Speaker 1: I'm wanting to see everybody get back in there and

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Speaker 1: really prove to the guys that did this that they

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Speaker 1: can't defeat us, that we're really able to overcome this

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Speaker 1: and a move on.

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Speaker 17: They wanted to show that this person, these people whoever

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Speaker 17: did this, was not going to stop the spirit of

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Speaker 17: the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Having a suspect who could quickly and neatly be found

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Speaker 1: guilty in the court of public opinion. It down only

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Speaker 1: checked both boxes, and this wasn't some cynical charade manufacturer

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Speaker 1: to keep Atlanta open for business. The FBI really did

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Speaker 1: think they'd crack the case. They really did think they

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Speaker 17: Once the forensics were done, once everything was wrapped up

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Speaker 17: on the investigative side by the authorities, they indeed opened

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Speaker 17: the park and they weren't afraid to come back in,

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Speaker 17: and they poured back in. I remember there was dignitaries,

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Speaker 17: prayers for the victims, and then people came.

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Speaker 6: Back and they continued to celebrate. The ninety six games.

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Speaker 2: Were confident half pay while the buds were fighting.

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Speaker 3: That was a time and now order for.

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Speaker 18: Four consecutive gold medals in a single event.

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Speaker 3: Thirty five year old Laurel.

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Speaker 22: Lewis American gymnastics teen men or women has won a

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Speaker 22: team gold medal.

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Speaker 3: I don't fully gettended.

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Speaker 1: On August fourth, nineteen ninety six, the Centennial Games concluded.

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Speaker 1: No further incidents impacted the Games that summer, and the

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Speaker 1: victims of the bombing were remembered with a moment of

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Speaker 1: silence at the closing ceremony. But this story was far

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Speaker 1: from over. They told us they had the bomber because

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Speaker 1: they thought we were safe. They thought it was okay,

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Speaker 1: but they were dead wrong. No one could have possibly

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Speaker 1: known at the time, but something was breaking. This bombing

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Speaker 1: had a lineage. It was part of something much bigger,

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Speaker 1: one spark in a groundswell of violence that would impact.

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Speaker 6: So many lives.

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Speaker 18: I remember where I was.

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Speaker 6: This is Leah Lance, one of the many who felt

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Speaker 6: the ripple effects of the bomb.

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Speaker 18: I was downtown hanging out with some friends at the

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Speaker 18: House of Blues, which is across the street from Centennial Park.

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Speaker 18: I was really relieved that I'd made at home and

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Speaker 18: left early and wasn't there when that happened. That night

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Speaker 18: was a close call for me, But it was the

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Speaker 18: next bomb that's the one that changed my life.

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Speaker 6: Eat Tree Industrial Boulevards ninety four.

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Speaker 1: It's nine thirty five and we go to Rob Standler, our.

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Speaker 3: News director with a breaking news store.

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Speaker 14: Steve I am at two seventy five Carpenter Drive. This

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Speaker 14: is a three story building that parallels Roswell Road. It's

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Speaker 14: right behind Good Old Days in Sandy Springs where a

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Speaker 14: suspected bomb has gone off in this building.

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