Atlanta Olympics Incident

Does anyone recall the small terrorist incident prior to the Opening Games of the Atlanta Summer Olympics? I’ve already forgotten - something at a nearby park with Olympic festivities…? Was the opening name delayed?

Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.

  • Jinx

Oops…I mean! Was the Opening Ceremony delayed! I don’t know where my fingers were when my mind wasn’t looking…! :smiley:

  • Jinx

The bomb went off well after the start of the Olympics. Events got shuffled around for a day or two.

FtG

And the security guard who spotted the bomb and called it in and was then implicated in the bombing but eventually found not to be involved in it after all had his reputation completely destroyed by being a hero. Yay.

Short memories we have here, don’t we? All the way back to 1996.

Anyway, here is the Department of Justice’s press release on whom they think perpetrated the bombing

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/1998/October/477crm.htm

There have been other threads about Eric Rudolph.