Richard Jewell
Richard Jewell
Richard Allensworth Jewellwas an American police officer who, while working as a security guard for AT&T, became known in connection with the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Discovering a backpack filled with three pipe bombs on the park grounds, Jewell alerted police and helped to evacuate the area before the bomb exploded, saving many people from injury or death. Initially hailed by the media as a hero, Jewell was later considered a suspect...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth17 November 1962
CountryUnited States of America
I submit to you that the Justice Department cannot investigate itself. The truth must come out.
In the state of Georgia, I am a certified peace officer. I'm just not currently working for a police department.
I thank God that it has now ended, and that you now know what I have known all along.
It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here.
I'm sure they're investigating everyone who was in the area.
I heard one of the agents talking to someone on the phone, saying there's not enough here to take (me). And then when he got off the phone, he looked at the other agent and said, 'That was Louis,'
I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.
I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.
The first step was a long process, ... Go Braves!
Just imagine your own mother turning to you, and for that instant, believing the media before she believed you. I'll never get back to that point where I was before they took that all away from me.
I hope I don't have to go through anything like this again. I hope no one has to go through anything like this again.
They were on the cell phone to (FBI Director Louis) Freeh , telling Mr. Freeh there was nothing there to take me to jail.
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.