USA: ATLANTA: RICHARD JEWELL PRESS CONFERENCE UPDATE — Transcript

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1. 0:14wood
2. 0:15Grant and Jack Martin unfortunately
3. 0:18cannot be here
4. 0:21today in its rush to show the world how
5. 0:24quickly it could get its man the FBI
6. 0:28trampled on my rights as a citizen
7. 0:31in it's rush for the headline that the
8. 0:34hero was the
9. 0:35bomber the media cared nothing for my
10. 0:38feelings as a human
11. 0:41being in their mad rush to fulfill their
12. 0:43own personal
13. 0:45agendas the FBI and the media almost
14. 0:48destroyed me and my
15. 0:52mother they also talk
16. 0:55about they also talk
17. 0:58there for 88 days
18. 1:00my mother lived a nightmare
19. 1:03too
20. 1:05Mom thanks for standing by me and
21. 1:08believe in
22. 1:15Meena on the evening of July 27th 1996
23. 1:18at Centennial Olympic Park I did not set
24. 1:21out to be a
25. 1:23hero I set out that night simply to do
26. 1:25my job and to do it
27. 1:28right I was then and remain now an
28. 1:32individual committed to the principles
29. 1:35of law enforcement and the protection of
30. 1:37the
31. 1:42public can you st for a second
32. 1:45pleas what kind of questions were they
33. 1:47asking
34. 2:05you the media were looking too your
35. 2:08cameras trained on my mother and me your
36. 2:11cameras and the FBI followed my every
37. 2:15move I felt like a hunted
38. 2:18animal followed constantly waiting to be
39. 2:25[Music]
40. 2:28killed the lawsuits that will be filed
41. 2:31for certain are defamation or liable and
42. 2:34slander lawsuits we have already
43. 2:36announced definitely that we will be
44. 2:38suing the Atlanta Journal Constitution
45. 2:40we have also announced that we will be
46. 2:42suing NBC and Tom broka