The True Story of Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’ — Transcript

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1. 0:00more than 20 years after that explosion
2. 0:02at the Atlanta Olympics a movies been
3. 0:04made about the man who was wrongly named
4. 0:06a suspect Richard Jewell was a security
5. 0:09guard at the Plaza who sounded the alarm
6. 0:11about a suspicious backpack now as Les
7. 0:14Trent reports his life story is getting
8. 0:16the Hollywood treatment it's the new
9. 0:18movie about Richard Jewell a security
10. 0:20guard at the 1996 Olympic Games in
11. 0:23Atlanta who was wrongly suspected of
12. 0:25setting off a ball jules spotted a
13. 0:30suspicious backpack during a concert
14. 0:32here at Centennial Olympic Park he
15. 0:34raised the alarm and helped evacuate
16. 0:36spectators but as the crowd was being
17. 0:38cleared a nail bomb inside the backpack
18. 0:40triggered by a timer exploded one woman
19. 0:45was killed and more than a hundred
20. 0:47people injured at first jewel was hailed
21. 0:50a hero but that all changed after this
22. 0:53newspaper story FBI suspect's hero guard
23. 0:57may have planted bomb and that point
24. 0:59forward Richard Jewell was a suspect and
25. 1:01he was trying to clear his name
26. 1:02former US Attorney Kent Alexander and
27. 1:05journalist Kevin Salman are authors of
28. 1:07the suspect and were consultants on the
29. 1:10new movie about jewel his name was in
30. 1:12every newspaper on every television show
31. 1:14just about three months after he was
32. 1:16blasted into the limelight from the
33. 1:18Olympic Park bombing Richard Jewell
34. 1:20today is vindicated the Justice
35. 1:22Department has said he is no longer a
36. 1:24suspect in the case and today jewel
37. 1:27faced the press saying in fact he has
38. 1:29been a victim I felt like a hunted
39. 1:31animal followed constantly waiting to be
40. 1:36killed Jewell later worked as a deputy
41. 1:38sheriff but the authors say the bomb
42. 1:40accusation haunted him to the day he
43. 1:42died in 2007 of heart failure the thing
44. 1:46that Richard always wanted was to no
45. 1:49longer be known as the former suspect
46. 1:52the new movie Richard Jewell is directed
47. 1:55by 89 year old Clint Eastwood it's
48. 1:58sparking controversy by suggesting the
49. 2:00newspaper reporter who broke the jewel
50. 2:02as a suspect story played by Olivia
51. 2:04Wilde traded sex for information from an
52. 2:07FBI agent played by Jon Hamm the
53. 2:10real-life Reporter featured in the movie
54. 2:12Kathy
55. 2:13frogs died in 2001 I spoke to Atlanta
56. 2:17journal-constitution editor-in-chief
57. 2:18Kevin Riley it implies that the reporter
58. 2:23got the story by trading sex for the tip
59. 2:27and there is absolutely no evidence that
60. 2:30that ever happened the domestic
61. 2:32terrorist Eric Rudolph later confessed
62. 2:34that he was behind the Atlanta blasts he
63. 2:37is now serving a life prison sentence as
64. 2:39for Richard Jewell the author sum him up
65. 2:42this way
66. 2:43he is truly a hero truly a hero there
67. 2:47are there's no doubt that he say of
68. 2:49scores of lives
69. 2:51[Music]