1996 Allegations Still Painful for Jewell

[kskiska]

Richard Jewell's fortunes changed in a split second.

The security guard was initially hailed as a hero for spotting a suspicious backpack in a park and moving people out of harm's way just before a bomb exploded during a concert at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Then the media called him a suspect and he became a public spectacle.

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Jewell said Rudolph's conviction helped, but he believes some people still remember him as a suspect rather than for the two days in which he was praised as a hero.

"For that two days, my mother had a great deal of pride in me — that I had done something good and that she was my mother, and that was taken away from her," Jewell said. "She'll never get that back, and there's no way I can give that back to her."

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[Submariner]

1. This poor guy got screwed BIGTIME by that pissant Brokaw

and the other news bunnies and news turds on the so-called news. And the way they did it was just gossipy. I'm sure if he looked like Brad Pitt he would have got off clean, but since he was overweight they seemed to try and link that with being a lone loser wannabe bomber.

I wish him well.

[TacticalPeek]

2. He IS a hero.

He saved lives. He did his job.

And he survived the arrogant, incompetent, jack-booted thugs at the FBI.

:patriot:

[The Deacon]

3. Certainly

I remember him as the hero - and his mother should be proud of him.