Atlanta Olympic Park bombing, Richard Jewell news reports from 1996 — Transcript

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1. 0:01their dance and everybody's having a
2. 0:03great time and they were about to start
3. 0:06a new song and bam you know just a
4. 0:09really loud noise and then we saw people
5. 0:10bleeding though is there steel Russian
6. 0:14people to medical then we came out here
7. 0:17we cleared the park and came on here and
8. 0:18this lady just fell over and
9. 0:23[Music]
10. 0:38[Music]
11. 0:38[Applause]
12. 0:59cuddy police are still on guard at the
13. 1:02entrance to the Monaco station
14. 1:03apartments they're watching us as
15. 1:05members of the media watch for any more
16. 1:07signs of activity by federal
17. 1:09investigators yesterday law men made a
18. 1:12second trip to Richard Jewell's former
19. 1:14home in Habersham County agents bagged
20. 1:16potential evidence they also removed
21. 1:18paint samples and took photographs other
22. 1:21investigators went to a Tokyo Hills
23. 1:23hardware store asking about pipe that
24. 1:26might have been used to make the bomb we
25. 1:28informed him we didn't have to inch a
26. 1:30galvanized pipe and we showed him the
27. 1:32pipe bin so he could see for himself we
28. 1:34didn't have and basically that was it
29. 1:38there's been speculation that the bomb
30. 1:40contained concrete nails the manager of
31. 1:43the hardware store said the agents never
32. 1:45asked him anything about nails Jewell
33. 1:47made a brief appearance outside his
34. 1:49apartment last evening on Wednesday
35. 1:51dozens of FBI and ATF agents were in
36. 1:53jewels residence and carried off box
37. 1:55after box of materials
38. 1:57apparently searching for that key piece
39. 1:59of evidence it was the first time agents
40. 2:06had met face to face with Richard Jewell
41. 2:08in 3 and a half days
42. 2:09Jules lawyer was there but he wouldn't
43. 2:12comment as he left counselor can we just
44. 2:14ask you what the attorney later told AP
45. 2:19that agents took samples of jewels hair
46. 2:22and fingerprints but we're told no when
47. 2:24they asked to tape jewels voice was a
48. 2:27voice over a telephone near Centennial
49. 2:29Park that called 911 is a we believe a
50. 2:34white male with an indistinguishable
51. 2:37accent I just happened to be at the
52. 2:39right place at the right time and did
53. 2:43the job that I was trained to do
54. 2:45vestigators have declined to comment on
55. 2:47a report that a comparison of jewels
56. 2:49voice and the 911
57. 2:52no similarities agents Saturday returned
58. 2:55to Piedmont College in Demarest
59. 2:57they seem to be concentrating on a
60. 2:59maintenance shed on campus Richard
61. 3:01Jewell was a security guard at college
62. 3:03investigators may feel that jewel could
63. 3:06well have had a key to that maintenance
64. 3:08building
65. 3:11tymberlee we're live at the Monaco
66. 3:13Square Apartments on Buford Highway
67. 3:15where we now have new developments in
68. 3:18the ongoing investigation of the
69. 3:19Centennial Park bombing this is the
70. 3:22apartment complex that is the residence
71. 3:23of 33 year old Richard Jewell Jewell as
72. 3:27you recall is the AT&T security guard
73. 3:30who first discovered the backpack at the
74. 3:32park Friday night before it went off he
75. 3:35is the one who alerted law enforcement
76. 3:37officials to the backpack and may have
77. 3:39bought them precious time time to get
78. 3:42additional people out of the park before
79. 3:44it went off killing two people and
80. 3:46wounding over a hundred others well just
81. 3:48moments ago the FBI was here at this
82. 3:51apartment complex they came through a
83. 3:52crowd of reporters they went up the
84. 3:54steps to jewels apartment which is on
85. 3:56the second floor of this building behind
86. 3:58me they did not identify themselves to
87. 4:00reporters but at the door we heard them
88. 4:02identify themselves as FBI agents to
89. 4:04jewel the two FBI agents were allowed in
90. 4:07they spent about ten minutes inside and
91. 4:09came back out again saying nothing to
92. 4:11the media they were followed close
93. 4:13behind by mr. Jewell who also did not
94. 4:16say much but he did say that he was not
95. 4:18under arrest at the time that he was
96. 4:20leaving the apartment complex this
97. 4:25morning he was a man with Olympic gold
98. 4:28medal hero status the alert security
99. 4:30guard who spotted the deadly backpack
100. 4:32and saved lives I will say everyone has
101. 4:36been very nice tonight
102. 4:39he's the FBI's prime suspect in the
103. 4:41Centennial Park bombing I'm sure they're
104. 4:43investigating every woman that was in
105. 4:45the area that may be but it was 33 year
106. 4:48old Richard Jewell who left his Buford
107. 4:50Highway apartment this afternoon headed
108. 4:53to Atlanta FBI headquarters with two
109. 4:55federal agents close behind then after
110. 4:57three hours of questioning he calmly
111. 4:59returned with a knapsack in his hand
112. 5:05categorically yes why are they
113. 5:08questioning you part of the process and
114. 5:14they've talked to me about with jewel
115. 5:18inside his apartment and FBI and police
116. 5:20posted outside the door his attorney
117. 5:23told waiting reporters Richard Jewell is
118. 5:25not the Centennial Park bomber being a
119. 5:32hero
120. 5:34Jim Schuler 11 News team 96 33 year old
121. 5:43Richard Jewell has spent most of today
122. 5:45is sitting on some steps just outside
123. 5:47his mother's Buford Highway apartment
124. 5:49while FBI and ATF agents turn it upside
125. 5:51down looking for clues as they remove
126. 5:53boxes of material Jules attorney finally
127. 5:55admitted his client is the suspect still
128. 5:58maintains he isn't guilty of anything
129. 5:59have they found anything inside here
130. 6:01knowledge no no and I don't think
131. 6:03they're gonna either and frankly we
132. 6:05welcome this because then this thing is
133. 6:06going to be over more than a hundred of
134. 6:08the world's news media and even some
135. 6:10sightseers recorded every move
136. 6:11especially when bomb sniffing dogs
137. 6:13checked out the apartment complex
138. 6:15despite their search warrant despite
139. 6:16sources who called jewel the chief
140. 6:18suspect in this case and despite the
141. 6:20fact that they towed away his truck
142. 6:21today the FBI has taken great pains to
143. 6:24point out he isn't charged with anything
144. 6:26at this point
145. 6:26search is part of an ongoing
146. 6:27investigative process
147. 6:30indicate in any way that mr. Jewell has
148. 6:33been charged with a crime under our
149. 6:34system of justice