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To: buccaneer81

How did Richard Jewell die?


37 posted on 11/14/2008 2:38:35 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter
How did Richard Jewell die?

A heart attack, brought on by being blamed for the Olympic Park bombing, harassed by the feds and the media then being exonerated with no apology.

From Wikipedia:

Richard Jewell's hunting rifles were confiscated and never returned, having been presumably sold.[citation needed] His mother's family photographs and Tupperware collection were taken as "evidence" and returned vandalized.[citation needed] Two of the bombing victims filed lawsuits against Jewell on the basis of this reporting. In a reference to the Unabomber, Jay Leno called him the "Una-doofus".[5] Other references include "Una-Bubba," [6] and (of his mother) "Una-Mama." Jewell was never officially charged, but the FBI searched his home, questioned his associates, investigated his background, and maintained twenty-four hour surveillance of him. The pressure only began to ease after Jewell's attorneys hired an ex-FBI agent to administer a polygraph, that Jewell reportedly passed. [4] In October 1996, the investigating US Attorney, Kent Alexander, in an extremely unusual move, sent Jewell a letter formally clearing him, stating "based on the evidence developed to date ... Richard Jewell is not considered a target of the federal criminal investigation into the bombing on July 27, 1996, at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta".[7]

58 posted on 11/14/2008 3:09:57 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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