Richard Jewell was a security guard who alerted police during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He discovered a backpack containing three pipe bombs on the park grounds and helped evacuate the area before the bomb exploded, saving many people from injury or death. Three days after the bombing, Jewell had become the primary suspect in the bombing after being falsely identified as a suspect by newspaper report Kathy Scruggs and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
