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The Hero Who Was Blamed for Murder (Advanced Program) · Spotlight English: Advanced

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  Speaker 1: Ah, Welcome to Spotlight Advanced. I'm Gillian Woodward.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm Patrick Woodward. Spotlight uses a special English method
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  Speaker 2: of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no
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  Speaker 2: matter where in the world they live.
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  Speaker 1: A music show is taking place. Fifty thousand people are there.
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  Speaker 1: A bag sits alone under a seat. A security guard
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  Speaker 1: notices the bag. He follows the rules. He tells the
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  Speaker 1: police about the bag. He does not know there is
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  Speaker 1: a bombin it, but he knows any bag left alone
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  Speaker 1: must be examined. He warns people to move away from
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  Speaker 1: the area. Not all the police officers take him seriously.
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  Speaker 1: They think he is worrying too much. But the officers
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  Speaker 1: help people will move away from the bag. The police
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  Speaker 1: call the bomb team. The team looks inside the bag.
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  Speaker 1: They find a bomb. A few minutes later, the bomb explodes,
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  Speaker 1: not everyone had moved far enough away. The bomb kills
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  Speaker 1: two people and injures over one hundred others.
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  Speaker 2: On today's Spotlight, we look at the security guard, Richard Jewell.
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  Speaker 2: Richard found the bag during the nineteen ninety six Summer
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  Speaker 2: Olympic Games. The music show took place in Centennial Olympic Park.
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  Speaker 2: The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games built Centennial Olympic Park.
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  Speaker 2: Award ceremonies and live shows took place in the park.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Jewell grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. After Jewell completed
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  Speaker 1: high school, he fixed cars for a living. Jewell had
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  Speaker 1: several jobs over the next tree twenty years. He worked
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  Speaker 1: as a hotel security guard. He also worked for the
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  Speaker 1: Habersham County Sheriff's office. Jewell's dream was to work in
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement, but he sometimes became too aggressive when enforcing
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  Speaker 1: laws and rules. Once, while working part time as a
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  Speaker 1: security guard, he approached two people at a building. He
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  Speaker 1: pretended to be a police officer and arrested them. Jewell
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  Speaker 1: later worked as a security officer at a college, but
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  Speaker 1: many students said that he was too hard on them
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  Speaker 1: for unimportant things. Jewell finally became an assistant police officer,
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  Speaker 1: but Jewell had an accident with his police car and
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  Speaker 1: left the police force.
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  Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety six, Jewell was hoping to find a
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  Speaker 2: security job at the summer Olympic Games. He moved in
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  Speaker 2: with his mother. He got a job or working in
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  Speaker 2: security at Centennial Park. During a music show, Jewel was
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  Speaker 2: walking around making sure people were safe. He also looked
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  Speaker 2: for unusual or suspicious things. Jewel saw a bag on
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  Speaker 2: the ground underneath a seat. No one was near the bag.
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  Speaker 2: Duel told a Georgia Bureau of Investigation officer about the bag.
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  Speaker 2: At first, the officer did not believe it was anything
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  Speaker 2: to worry about. With so many people around, there were
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  Speaker 2: bags everywhere. Jewel looked for someone searching for a missing bag.
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  Speaker 2: He did not find anyone. No one came back for
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  Speaker 2: the bag. Jewel finally persuaded the officer to call the
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  Speaker 2: bomb team.
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  Speaker 1: But Jewel was not the sort of person who waited
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  Speaker 1: around for someone else to fix a problem. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do something, especially when people were in danger. While
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  Speaker 1: the bomb team made their way to the bag, Jewel
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  Speaker 1: tried to help. The Historic Times explained.
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  Speaker 3: Richard had already started moving people away. He even used
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  Speaker 3: force because nobody took him seriously. He managed to push
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  Speaker 3: over two hundred people away from the seat.
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  Speaker 2: Then an unidentified man called the police. He said a
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  Speaker 2: bomb was in Centennial Park. He said, you have thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: The bomb was home made. The timer on the bomb
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  Speaker 1: was not set correctly. It did not go off. Thirty
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  Speaker 1: minutes later, it exploded. Sooner. The crowd of people had
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  Speaker 1: not yet been safely moved away. The bomb killed two people,
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  Speaker 1: including a mother in the park with her fourteen year
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  Speaker 1: old daughter. The bomb injured one hundred and eleven other people.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty four police officers were hurt.
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  Speaker 2: At first, Juel received praise for finding the bag and
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  Speaker 2: telling the authorities. If he had not, more people would
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  Speaker 2: have been killed and hurt. All the other security guards
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  Speaker 2: and police officers at Centennial Park either missed the bag
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  Speaker 2: or did not take the time to call it in.
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  Speaker 2: Only Duel followed the correct process to make sure the
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  Speaker 2: bag was examined. He also started moving people away from
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  Speaker 2: the bag before anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: But The head of security at the college where Jewel
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  Speaker 1: used to work called the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI.
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  Speaker 1: He told them that Jewel owned books about how to
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  Speaker 1: make a bomb. He told them Jewel was intense. He said.
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  Speaker 1: Students had not liked Duel. The FBI immediately began investigating Jewel.
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  Speaker 1: They thought he might have made the bomb and put
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  Speaker 1: it in the park. The FBI wondered if Jewell planted
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  Speaker 1: the bomb so that he could be the one who
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  Speaker 1: found it By saving lives, Jewel might get a better
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  Speaker 1: job in law enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: The FBI told a reporter for a local Atlanta news paper,
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  Speaker 2: the Atlanta Journal Constitution, that they were investigating Jewel. They
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  Speaker 2: told the reporter that Jewel seemed like the sort of
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  Speaker 2: person to explode a bomb in a public place. Usually
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  Speaker 2: a bomber is frustrated and angry with society. He wants
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  Speaker 2: people to notice him.
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  Speaker 1: The Atlanta Journal Constitution published a story the next day
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  Speaker 1: that Jewel was the FBI's top suspect. Suddenly, reporters around
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  Speaker 1: the world talked about Jewel differently. He was no longer
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  Speaker 1: a hero. People did not trust Jewell. Reporters waited all
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  Speaker 1: day outside his mother's home. Many stories and news broadcasts
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  Speaker 1: said Jewel had probably built and planted the bomb. They
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  Speaker 1: said Jewel had the knowledge of bombs to build it.
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  Speaker 1: They said he wanted to do it because he felt
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  Speaker 1: he deserved a better job in law enforcement. They knew
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  Speaker 1: Jewell also could get into Centennial Park easily because he
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  Speaker 1: was a security guy there.
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  Speaker 2: The FBI questioned Jewel his friends, family, co workers, and
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  Speaker 2: people who lived near him. They inspected the house where
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  Speaker 2: Jewel lived. They dug through the things he threw away.
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  Speaker 2: They tried to find any solid evidence that Juel was
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  Speaker 2: the bomber, but they could not. They also could not
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  Speaker 2: explain how Duel could have made the phone call to
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  Speaker 2: the police warning them of the bomb. Jewel was seen
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  Speaker 2: by police officers in Centennial Park around the time of
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  Speaker 2: the phone call. The phone call was made from a
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  Speaker 2: payphone that was a fore minute walk away. A payphone
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  Speaker 2: is a public phone that people pay to use. Duel
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  Speaker 2: could not be in two places at once. Finally, after
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  Speaker 2: eighty eight days, the FBI announced that Jewel was no
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  Speaker 2: longer a suspect.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin solwn Co wrote a book about Jewel and the
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  Speaker 1: FBI's investigation into the bombing.
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  Speaker 4: Solown said Jewel was an overweight guy in his early thirties.
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  Speaker 4: He lived in his mother's home. He was over enthusiastic.
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  Speaker 4: He was the unfair target, first of the FBI and
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  Speaker 4: then later the media.
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  Speaker 2: The FBI in Atlanta and local Atlanta newspapers felt great
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  Speaker 2: pressure to find the person responsible for the bombing. With
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  Speaker 2: people all over the world watching coverage of the Olympic bombing,
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  Speaker 2: they needed to act fast. It was tragic enough that
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  Speaker 2: the bombing could not be stopped if local authorities did
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  Speaker 2: not find the bomber quickly, they would look like they
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  Speaker 2: could not do their jobs. They might even get fired.
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  Speaker 1: Two years after the bombing in Centennial Park, law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: finally found the person who planted the bomb. They used
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  Speaker 1: evidence found at several different bomb sites to identify Eric
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  Speaker 1: Robert Rudolph. They put Rudolph on the FBI's ten most
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  Speaker 1: Wanted feudative list. They hunted Rudolph for five years. He
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  Speaker 1: was hiding in the mountains of North Carolina. Law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: officers found Rudolph and arrested him two years later. Rudolph
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  Speaker 1: finally admitted planting the bomb at Centennial Park during the
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  Speaker 1: Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Nine years after Jewel was falsely blamed,
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  Speaker 1: the world learned who had really done it. But Jewell
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  Speaker 1: never felt completely free from judgment. He knew some people
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  Speaker 1: would always wonder if he had really bombed the Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: Juel spent those nine years working for law enforcement in
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  Speaker 2: Meriweather County, Georgia. He got married. Juell took several television
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  Speaker 2: networks and newspapers to court for making full statements that
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  Speaker 2: changed how people saw him. He won most of the lawsuits.
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  Speaker 2: Duel used the settlement money to buy houses for himself
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  Speaker 2: and his mother. Juel received an apology from Janet Reno,
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  Speaker 2: the attorney general at the time. George's governor also apologized.
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  Speaker 1: For the first three months after the bombing, the media
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  Speaker 1: told everyone that Jewel was responsible. Even though Rudolph later
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  Speaker 1: admitted to the bombing. There would always be people who
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  Speaker 1: could not trust Jewel. That part hurt Jewel most. His
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  Speaker 1: dream was to protect people. Jewel wanted everyone to know
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  Speaker 1: they could trust him. Two years after Rudolph admitted to
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  Speaker 1: the crime, Richard Jewell died of heart disease. He was
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  Speaker 1: forty four years old.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of Richard Jewell? Would you have
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  Speaker 2: thought that Jewel was the bomber right after the Olympic bombing?
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  Speaker 2: Did you have reacted if you had been dual and
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  Speaker 1: The writer of this episode was Peter Anderson, The producer
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  Speaker 1: as Mitch yo Osaki. The voices you heard were from
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