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Richard Jewell
Richard Jewell
  • Born: December 17, 1962
  • Died: August 29, 2007
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Security Guard, Police Officer, Deputy Sheriff

Richard Allensworth Jewell was an American security guard and law enforcement officer who acted heroically during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. For months afterwards he was suspected of planting the bomb, leading to adverse publicity that "came to symbolize the excesses of law enforcement and the news media."