Eric Rudolph

American bomber

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Atlanta Olympic Games bombing of 1996

  • Lighting the Olympic flame
    In Olympic Games: Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., 1996

    The perpetrator, American Eric Rudolph, also later bombed a gay night club in 1997 and an abortion clinic in 1998. He was sentenced to multiple terms of life imprisonment in 2005.

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  • Wu Yanyan at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games
    In Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games

    The perpetrator, American Eric Rudolph, also later bombed a gay night club in 1997 and an abortion clinic in 1998. He was sentenced to multiple terms of life imprisonment in 2005.

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  • Atlanta Olympic Games bombing of 1996
    In Atlanta Olympic Games bombing of 1996

    In 1998 Eric Rudolph, an ardent opponent of abortion, was identified as a suspect in the bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, earlier in the year, and later in 1998 he was charged with the Centennial Olympic Park bombing and the 1997 bombings of a…

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Jewell

  • Richard Jewell
    In Richard Jewell

    …in actuality been planted by Eric Rudolph, an anti-abortion activist exploded, killing one woman and injuring 112.. A photojournalist also died, after suffering a heart attack while running to cover the event.

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