Richard Jewell Dead

WSB ^ | 08/29/04

[Iwo Jima]

I remember watching that search on TV. It was most definitely not a "let's just search the guy's place and see if we find anything" type of search. Those agents tore that place apart. And the looks on their faces! Like "it's gotta be here, it's just gotta." I always wondered what "it" was. Those guys were mad enough to chew those nails they confiscated.

I also remember the look on Jewell's face. It was sort of a "I may be a dumb cop wannabee, but I outfoxed you" kind of look. Not a guilty look at all, but a little smug.

[Iwo Jima]

I suggest nothing. It was just a question, an innocent question. Honest!

[lesser_satan]

McDonald is hilarious. The only time in SNL history when weekend update was funny since Dan Akroyd and Jane Curtain did it was when Norm was doing it.

[Orange1998]

Anything but the Tupperware! As soon as I read tupperware I said “thoses Bastards got his Tupperware!”

[netmilsmom]

That’a too funny!

[Suzy Quzy]

Prayers......he went thru hell.

[elizabetty]

He had been ill with kidney disease for some time.

[elizabetty]

He got five million from the Atlanta Constitution, IIRC.

I don't think so. I believe the Al-Jazeera Constitution lawyers were still stinging him along.

[Iwo Jima]

His mama's Tupperware. You just know that they got her commemorative plates, too.

[La Enchiladita]

We can hope he got ‘em. They sure put him through a nightmare.

44, so young... Rest in peace, Richard.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Rest In peace, sir.

Hopefully the scumbags won’t hound you in death as well.

[rwfromkansas]

yeah, it was great. Too bad they fired him from it.

I used to watch SNL a lot, but after about 2000, it just sucked anymore. I haven’t seen it in months.

[rwfromkansas]

RIP, sir.

I hope you found some peace.

[KeyLargo]

Richard Jewell was a victim, just as those at Waco, of the Janet Reno Justice Department and MSM.

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FORBES.COM
Former Olympic Park Guard Jewell Dies
By HARRY R. WEBER 08.30.07, 6:21 AM ET

....Though eventually cleared in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, Jewell, who was found dead Wednesday at 44, never recovered from the shame of being wrongly linked to the bombing in the news media. Finally, a year ago, he was again hailed as a hero.

...But on the third day, an unattributed report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution described him as “the focus” of the investigation.

...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.

...Reporters camped outside Jewell’s mother’s apartment in the Atlanta area, and his life was dissected for weeks by the media. He was never arrested or charged, although he was questioned and was a subject of search warrants.

...”For that two days, my mother had a great deal of pride in me - that I had done something good and that she was my mother, and that was taken away from her,” Jewell said. “She’ll never get that back, and there’s no way I can give that back to her.”

Excerpts:

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/30/ap4067533.html