Richard Jewell Case
Slide 1
My topic was the Case of Richard Jewell and the Media Mistreatment he endured.
Slide 2
The 1996 Summer Olympic Games were underway in Atlanta Georgia
Richard Jewell was working as a security gaurd at Centennial Park during a late night concert event. Jewell noticied an unattended knapsack left under a bench. He quickly notified federal agents who determined there was a bomb inside. Jewell and other personel started to quietly evacuate the area.
15 minutes later an unidentified man calls in a bomb threat, at a pay phone about 3 blocks away.
Slide 3
18 minutes later, at 1:20AM the bomb detonates, killing 2 and injuring 111 others.
For his efforts, Jewell is hailed a hero
Slide 4
However, on July 28th, FBI views shifted from Hero to Suspect when Raymond Cleere recognized his past employee on television. He reached out to the FBI and Atlanta newspapers raising the possibility that Jewell could have been involved in planting the bomb, basing the suggestion on problems in Jewell’s earlier record as a security guard at Piedmont College. Cleere went on to give false information about Jewell calling him a “Badge wearing zealot”. the FBI decided to run a background check on Jewell. Agents recalled a case in Southern California not long before in which a voluntary firefighter had set a series of fires so that he could extinguish them and become a hero. The FBI felt that all this information fit a description known as “the lone bomber” who wanted to engineer his own herosim.
On July 29th, FBI analysts noted Jewell had expressed a desire to become a law enforcement agent and suggested he may have believed that making himself a hero at the Olympic Games would help him become a police officer. They also said Jewell’s statement in a televised interview that he hoped to get such a position after the Games was highly inappropriate give the context and could indicate a possible motive for planting the explosives. At this point, the FBI had Jewell
My topic was the Case of Richard Jewell and the Media Mistreatment he endured.
Slide 2
The 1996 Summer Olympic Games were underway in Atlanta Georgia
Richard Jewell was working as a security gaurd at Centennial Park during a late night concert event. Jewell noticied an unattended knapsack left under a bench. He quickly notified federal agents who determined there was a bomb inside. Jewell and other personel started to quietly evacuate the area.
15 minutes later an unidentified man calls in a bomb threat, at a pay phone about 3 blocks away.
Slide 3
18 minutes later, at 1:20AM the bomb detonates, killing 2 and injuring 111 others.
For his efforts, Jewell is hailed a hero
Slide 4
However, on July 28th, FBI views shifted from Hero to Suspect when Raymond Cleere recognized his past employee on television. He reached out to the FBI and Atlanta newspapers raising the possibility that Jewell could have been involved in planting the bomb, basing the suggestion on problems in Jewell’s earlier record as a security guard at Piedmont College. Cleere went on to give false information about Jewell calling him a “Badge wearing zealot”. the FBI decided to run a background check on Jewell. Agents recalled a case in Southern California not long before in which a voluntary firefighter had set a series of fires so that he could extinguish them and become a hero. The FBI felt that all this information fit a description known as “the lone bomber” who wanted to engineer his own herosim.
On July 29th, FBI analysts noted Jewell had expressed a desire to become a law enforcement agent and suggested he may have believed that making himself a hero at the Olympic Games would help him become a police officer. They also said Jewell’s statement in a televised interview that he hoped to get such a position after the Games was highly inappropriate give the context and could indicate a possible motive for planting the explosives. At this point, the FBI had Jewell