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Friday, August 31, 2007

Jewell remembered in Atlanta today

Mourners gathered in Atlanta today to remember Richard Jewell, the former security guard falsely accused of a deadly bombing during the 1996 Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta. Jewell was found dead in his Meriwether County home on Wednesday. An autopsy showed Jewell suffered a heart attack. Eventually cleared of the bombing at Centennial Park, Jewell lived with the stigma of accuations. Richard Jewell was 44-years old.

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