Posted on 05/31/2003 5:02:27 AM PDT by Vinnie
07/18/98: A HERO OF MANDELLA...A FOOL AND COMMON CRIMINAL OF RUDOLPH!
07/20/98: Green and Black...Today's Color Scheme in the Rudolph Hunt...
08/05/98: Ex-colonel offers to help lead Rudolph safely out of woods
10/14/98: Rudolph charged in Olympic Bombing
10/15/98: FBI Accuses Eric Rudolph of Lincoln murder
11/12/98: 200 AGENTS NEEDED TO HUNT RUDOLPH
12/15/98: RUDOLPH MANHUNT FINDS ONLY SKEPTICS
01/10/99: RUDOLPH CONTINUES TO ELUDE SEARCHERS
01/28/99: In Search Of Rudolph - An Outsider's Story
01/30/99: A Year Later, Bomb Suspect Eric Rudolph Still Eludes Capture
02/12/99: **Stop the Eric Rudolph witch-hunt! How to punish him? Creative suggestions?
03/10/99: Eric Rudolph : Top terror fugitive outfoxes hunters
03/17/99: Freeh: FBI may scale down investigators searching for Rudolph
07/27/99: Eric Rudolph is a dangerous "lone wolf'' : Agents Say Accused Bomb Fugitive Very Dangerous
12/14/99: ATF Chief Believes Rudolph Is Dead
ATLANTA (CNN) -- The death of Alice Hawthorne cast a pall over the Summer Olympics.
She was the only person to die from the bombing in Centennial Olympic Park, although a Turkish television cameraman died of a heart attack while rushing to videotape the aftermath of the downtown explosion.
To those who knew her, the 44-year-old Hawthorne, an entrepreneur and cable TV customer service and sales representative from Albany, Georgia, represented much of what was good about life -- determination, generosity, spunk.
The mother of two daughters drove to the park in downtown Atlanta after work on July 26 as a birthday present to her 14-year-old, Fallon Stubbs. The two were dancing at an outdoor concert by a rhythm-and-blues band when the pipe bomb exploded early the next morning.
"If somebody went to all the trouble to bring the Olympics to Atlanta, the least I can do is go," the outgoing Hawthorne was quoted as telling friends before the trip.
Deadly shrapnel pelted Hawthorne and injured Fallon and 110 other people. A doctor and nurse tried to revive Hawthorne at the scene, but she was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. Fallon was hospitalized briefly.
Hawthorne, a Georgia native, grew up in the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville. Her parents divorced, and her mother, a cleaning woman, encouraged her children's aspirations.
After graduating from high school, Hawthorne moved to Albany to attend Albany State College (now University), where she earned her marketing degree -- despite several interruptions -- in 1994. She served in the Army and Air Force.
Fallon was the daughter of Hawthorne's first husband, John Stubbs; an older daughter, Adoria Minor, was from another relationship. Hawthorne and Stubbs divorced in 1984, and she married John Hawthorne Jr. in 1987.
Hawthorne worked at TCI of Georgia. In 1993, she opened Fallon's Hot Dog & Ice Cream Parlor, fulfilling her longtime dream of owning a business. It was named after her daughter.
Hawthorne's willingness to cheerfully help others was one of her striking qualities, those who knew her said.
She volunteered at Fallon's school, the Albany Area Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion Post 512. Ironically, as a goodwill ambassador for the Chamber, one of her last civic contributions was to organize and publicize the running of the Olympic torch through Albany.
Georgia Gov. Zell Miller and Andrew Young, co-chairman of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, attended the memorial service held for her in Albany. The Olympic flag was flown at half-staff, and world leaders offered condolences.
If we could go back in the archives we could find a number of freepers who thought Rudolph was a hero.While claiming that Islam as a religion is fully responsible for the actions of its nutcases.
-Eric
That isn't the point and you know it. What if it wasn't Emily Lyons. What if it was a passerby who happened to walk by the clinic with her children on the way to the bus stop when the bomb went off? Bombings are cowardly, inaccurate, and evil. Cheering them lessens you as a person.
prisoner6
Except I did not ignore it. I was commenting on Emily Lyons, who you were posting about. Nive try, but no dice. Another example of you dishing it out, but not being able to take it. Again, I chalenge you to repost my statements that you have accused me of through your questions.
Sometimes it's just dumb luck--but in this case, the deputies that arrested him noticed the scar on his chin and it matched with Rudolph's description. They deserve the credit.
Didn't the U.S. and its allies do a lot of inaccurate bombing during WWII?
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