Richard Jewell Star Jon Hamm Defends Controversial ... not quite 24 hours after the bombing, the police chief at Piedmont College, Jewell’s former employer, phoned in a lead about him ...

Richard Jewell, the security guard wrongly suspected and later cleared of setting off a deadly bomb at Atlanta, Georgia's Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics, died Wednesday morning, his ...

Richard Jewell, working as a security guard in the ... He was hounded for weeks afterward by police and press until the FBI issued a statement that Jewell wasn’t a suspect in the attack.

FILE- In this July 28, 1996, file photo, security guard Richard Jewell poses across from the tower where he found a bomb and warned visitors at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. When a bomb ...