1 00:00:04,787 --> 00:00:09,574 - I declare open the games of Atlanta. 2 00:00:11,141 --> 00:00:13,622 - Everybody thought it was the safest place in the world 3 00:00:13,665 --> 00:00:16,059 and nothing's going to happen. 4 00:00:16,103 --> 00:00:18,148 - All of a sudden, boom! 5 00:00:18,192 --> 00:00:22,152 - People began to scream. They were crying. 6 00:00:22,196 --> 00:00:23,936 People were hurt. 7 00:00:23,980 --> 00:00:25,764 - Then there's another bombing. 8 00:00:26,722 --> 00:00:29,942 - The abortion clinic, where a police officer was killed 9 00:00:29,986 --> 00:00:32,075 and a nurse was seriously wounded. 10 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:36,993 - We clearly believe that we are dealing with a deranged killer. 11 00:00:37,037 --> 00:00:40,170 - Someone notices someone walking away from the scene. 12 00:00:41,128 --> 00:00:42,694 - Now we have a suspect. 13 00:00:42,738 --> 00:00:46,437 That launched probably one of the most extensive manhunts 14 00:00:46,481 --> 00:00:48,961 and fugitive investigations in the FBI's history. 15 00:00:50,746 --> 00:00:53,618 - Even as he was on the run, he hadn't given up 16 00:00:53,662 --> 00:00:55,185 trying to kill people. 17 00:00:55,229 --> 00:00:58,101 He was planning to bomb the FBI command post. 18 00:00:58,145 --> 00:01:00,799 - Time is of the essence. People are dying. 19 00:01:00,843 --> 00:01:03,063 And we don't know where the next bomb is going to go off. 20 00:01:03,106 --> 00:01:05,543 [distant blast] 21 00:01:08,938 --> 00:01:12,115 [Narrator]: In the FBI we make a lot of headlines. 22 00:01:14,813 --> 00:01:18,078 Drug busts, mob stings, 23 00:01:18,121 --> 00:01:21,690 terrorist takedowns. 24 00:01:22,691 --> 00:01:26,129 We understand why people want to tell stories about us. 25 00:01:26,173 --> 00:01:27,913 - Mark it. - Freeze! 26 00:01:27,957 --> 00:01:30,090 - FBI. - FBI! 27 00:01:30,133 --> 00:01:33,919 [Narrator]: But they don't know the half of it. 28 00:01:33,963 --> 00:01:35,791 What really goes down? 29 00:01:35,834 --> 00:01:38,271 We save that for each other, 30 00:01:38,315 --> 00:01:40,970 when we're talking agent to agent. 31 00:01:43,625 --> 00:01:44,800 This is FBI True. 32 00:01:54,418 --> 00:01:58,378 July 27, 1996. What was your assignment? 33 00:01:58,422 --> 00:02:02,296 [Narrator]: Kristy Kottis is a 24-year veteran of the FBI. 34 00:02:02,339 --> 00:02:05,603 She worked gangs, crimes against children 35 00:02:05,647 --> 00:02:08,084 as well as human and drug trafficking. 36 00:02:08,824 --> 00:02:10,955 - I was a special agent bomb technician. 37 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,917 And I was dispatched to the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. 38 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,617 [Narrator]: Frank Brostrom served for 28 years in the FBI, 39 00:02:19,661 --> 00:02:22,142 working as a special agent bomb technician 40 00:02:22,185 --> 00:02:25,145 and was a joint terrorism task force leader. 41 00:02:26,668 --> 00:02:29,061 I was assigned to lead a diagnostic team 42 00:02:29,105 --> 00:02:31,325 like the other special agent bomb technicians. 43 00:02:31,368 --> 00:02:33,978 When someone called in a suspicious package, 44 00:02:34,023 --> 00:02:37,635 we might do an X-ray or a physical examination. 45 00:02:37,679 --> 00:02:39,811 Then we were to contact the command post 46 00:02:39,855 --> 00:02:41,770 and they would send a bomb squad out. 47 00:02:41,813 --> 00:02:43,772 - And Bill, how about you? 48 00:02:43,815 --> 00:02:47,297 - I also was working as a special agent bomb technician. 49 00:02:47,341 --> 00:02:50,300 [Narrator]: Bill Forsyth is a retired 50 00:02:50,344 --> 00:02:52,084 FBI special agent bomb technician, 51 00:02:52,128 --> 00:02:54,304 serving on several high profile cases, 52 00:02:54,348 --> 00:02:58,221 including the Unabomber and the Oklahoma City bombing. 53 00:02:58,265 --> 00:03:00,615 - We were assigned that night 54 00:03:00,658 --> 00:03:03,052 to be in the Olympic Centennial Park. 55 00:03:10,755 --> 00:03:14,194 There was a concert going on. Jack Mack and the Heart Attack. 56 00:03:14,237 --> 00:03:17,893 - Atlanta, you gotta make some noise! 57 00:03:22,898 --> 00:03:27,598 - The beer vendors were doing very well, you could tell. 58 00:03:27,642 --> 00:03:29,209 Think of 40,000 people 59 00:03:29,252 --> 00:03:33,038 crammed into about 20 acres, drunk... 60 00:03:33,082 --> 00:03:36,912 And the loud music. It was hot, very hot. 61 00:03:38,783 --> 00:03:40,785 So it's a few minutes before 1 AM. 62 00:03:40,829 --> 00:03:45,268 and we get a call to respond to the base of the NBC tower 63 00:03:45,312 --> 00:03:49,141 regarding a unattended backpack. 64 00:03:53,145 --> 00:03:57,672 We met up with the security officers that had called it in. 65 00:03:57,715 --> 00:04:01,415 They went on to say that there was these five young men 66 00:04:01,458 --> 00:04:03,765 that were obviously overserved 67 00:04:03,808 --> 00:04:06,028 with their beverages that night. 68 00:04:06,071 --> 00:04:08,291 And they got up and started to leave. 69 00:04:08,335 --> 00:04:11,860 The security people asked them, is that your backpack? 70 00:04:11,903 --> 00:04:13,862 And they indicated that it was not. 71 00:04:13,905 --> 00:04:15,472 And they walked on. 72 00:04:15,516 --> 00:04:19,128 So the security personnel called into the command post. 73 00:04:24,046 --> 00:04:26,788 My partner and I walk up to the to the pack. 74 00:04:26,831 --> 00:04:29,312 I'm not at all concerned about it 75 00:04:29,356 --> 00:04:32,881 because this is a very routine call for us. 76 00:04:32,924 --> 00:04:35,492 And my intention was to pick it up 77 00:04:35,536 --> 00:04:38,713 and to put it on the bench where I could sort of open it 78 00:04:38,756 --> 00:04:42,325 and examine the insides more easily. 79 00:04:42,369 --> 00:04:44,371 As I did... 80 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:51,378 That law enforcement sixth sense came upon me. 81 00:04:51,421 --> 00:04:54,816 Words came to my mind that were almost audible 82 00:04:54,859 --> 00:04:57,209 that said, stop. 83 00:04:57,253 --> 00:05:00,169 You weren't trained like that. 84 00:05:00,212 --> 00:05:02,214 I was just within inches of it, 85 00:05:02,258 --> 00:05:05,261 and it was just this very sickening feeling 86 00:05:05,305 --> 00:05:06,741 in my, you know, in my gut. 87 00:05:06,784 --> 00:05:09,352 I realized that I needed to get my head in the game. 88 00:05:09,396 --> 00:05:12,268 Got down on the ground and tried to look to see if I could see 89 00:05:12,312 --> 00:05:15,140 any kind of wires, if I could see if I could hear ticking, 90 00:05:15,184 --> 00:05:16,185 which I couldn't. 91 00:05:16,228 --> 00:05:17,707 - Why couldn't you hear anything? 92 00:05:17,752 --> 00:05:19,275 You were down right on top of it. 93 00:05:19,319 --> 00:05:21,886 - It was because of how loud the music was 94 00:05:21,930 --> 00:05:24,672 and there was people all around me. 95 00:05:26,456 --> 00:05:29,546 [crowd cheering] 96 00:05:30,547 --> 00:05:35,552 I reach up and I carefully and very gingerly, 97 00:05:35,596 --> 00:05:38,686 squeeze the pack to kind of see if I can feel 98 00:05:38,729 --> 00:05:40,340 if it squishes at all. 99 00:05:40,383 --> 00:05:43,560 I can feel that it was extremely firm 100 00:05:43,604 --> 00:05:47,477 and definitely wasn't someone's lunch or somebody's clothes. 101 00:05:50,828 --> 00:05:53,614 As I flipped the flap back, 102 00:05:53,657 --> 00:05:58,401 now I can see three large pipes. 103 00:05:58,445 --> 00:06:00,621 And through the center of each of the of each of the pipes 104 00:06:00,664 --> 00:06:02,405 were wires coming out. 105 00:06:02,449 --> 00:06:04,668 I can smell it. I can almost taste it. 106 00:06:04,712 --> 00:06:07,279 And now I'm close enough 107 00:06:07,323 --> 00:06:10,152 that I can hear the ticking of a clock. 108 00:06:10,195 --> 00:06:11,806 - It's a bomb. - Oh, my God. 109 00:06:11,849 --> 00:06:13,242 - Ready to explode. 110 00:06:18,247 --> 00:06:20,423 This is what I refer to as my BABE. 111 00:06:20,467 --> 00:06:23,383 A big angry bomb almost ready to explode. 112 00:06:26,951 --> 00:06:30,085 The real scary thing is I don't know if it's the next second, 113 00:06:30,128 --> 00:06:31,695 you know, if it's going to be the next tick 114 00:06:31,739 --> 00:06:35,046 or if we have 30 minutes left on the timer, 115 00:06:35,090 --> 00:06:37,571 and with each tick, I'm getting more unnerved. 116 00:06:37,614 --> 00:06:41,009 I'm in absolute shock. I'm scared. 117 00:06:41,052 --> 00:06:43,054 Is this going to be the end? 118 00:06:43,098 --> 00:06:46,014 I was on my hands and knees. 119 00:06:46,057 --> 00:06:48,233 People were tripping over my feet. 120 00:06:48,277 --> 00:06:51,106 It's just hard to understand 121 00:06:51,149 --> 00:06:54,631 just how crowded and loud it was. 122 00:06:54,675 --> 00:06:58,418 [crowd cheering] 123 00:06:58,461 --> 00:07:01,290 I jump up, I talk to my partner, 124 00:07:01,333 --> 00:07:03,510 I asked him to call the command center, 125 00:07:03,553 --> 00:07:06,208 tell them that we need the bomb squad here as soon as possible. 126 00:07:06,251 --> 00:07:09,429 I went over and met with the security people 127 00:07:09,472 --> 00:07:13,215 and I told them we don't know how much time we have. 128 00:07:13,258 --> 00:07:17,480 And we need to get everybody as far away from that device 129 00:07:17,524 --> 00:07:19,351 as we can and get them out. 130 00:07:19,395 --> 00:07:23,965 There must have been, you know, 10,000 people within 50 yards. 131 00:07:24,618 --> 00:07:26,707 - So when you're moving 10,000 people 132 00:07:26,750 --> 00:07:29,536 from a festival where people are cocktailed up. 133 00:07:29,579 --> 00:07:31,233 Are people still stumbling 134 00:07:31,276 --> 00:07:33,104 and meandering into the area you just cleared? 135 00:07:33,148 --> 00:07:35,585 - It was a mess. Yeah. It's like herding cats. 136 00:07:35,629 --> 00:07:37,239 You know, only they're drunken cats. 137 00:07:37,282 --> 00:07:40,547 And that process of trying to move people back 138 00:07:40,590 --> 00:07:44,507 as far as we can, our backs are to the device. 139 00:07:44,551 --> 00:07:46,596 All of a sudden. 140 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,729 - Right about now we have 141 00:07:48,772 --> 00:07:51,383 the privilege of working with this... 142 00:07:51,427 --> 00:07:56,040 [loud blast, then ringing] 143 00:07:58,478 --> 00:08:01,611 - We were approximately 43 feet from the device. 144 00:08:01,655 --> 00:08:03,308 - Wait a minute. What? 145 00:08:03,352 --> 00:08:05,485 - We have the privilege of working with this... 146 00:08:05,528 --> 00:08:08,009 [loud blast] 147 00:08:08,052 --> 00:08:11,142 - What pushed us to the ground was the blast wave. 148 00:08:15,712 --> 00:08:18,715 At first I was just in absolute shock. 149 00:08:18,759 --> 00:08:21,588 And what was surreal about it 150 00:08:21,631 --> 00:08:23,720 is that time almost stood still. 151 00:08:23,764 --> 00:08:26,331 - Nobody's bothered you, right? - Well... 152 00:08:26,375 --> 00:08:29,160 [nearby blast] 153 00:08:31,423 --> 00:08:33,556 - And everything in that park 154 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,690 for about three or four seconds went quiet. 155 00:08:44,306 --> 00:08:47,135 - During that quiet time, were you like, am I still here? 156 00:08:47,178 --> 00:08:51,139 - Well, yeah. I'm not sure if I had, you know... 157 00:08:51,182 --> 00:08:56,144 Had crossed over to the other side or not. 158 00:08:56,187 --> 00:08:58,189 Or, um... 159 00:09:04,152 --> 00:09:07,329 People began to scream. They were crying. 160 00:09:07,372 --> 00:09:09,505 People were hurt. 161 00:09:09,549 --> 00:09:12,639 I was dazed and everybody around me was dazed. 162 00:09:12,682 --> 00:09:15,337 There was officers beside me who were bleeding. 163 00:09:15,380 --> 00:09:19,254 And I wasn't sure if I was hurt or not. 164 00:09:32,006 --> 00:09:33,529 [sirens] 165 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:35,357 - Do you have any idea how many are hurt? 166 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,359 - Well, there are people hurt, that's all I can say. 167 00:09:37,402 --> 00:09:39,056 There have been some injuries. 168 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:40,623 [reporter]: We talked to one man who gave an account 169 00:09:40,667 --> 00:09:43,670 of what appeared to him be shrapnel wounds. 170 00:09:43,713 --> 00:09:46,020 - This thing came down, hit me in the leg, 171 00:09:46,063 --> 00:09:47,630 I heard a couple pieces of metal land on the ground. 172 00:09:47,674 --> 00:09:49,240 - This is a piece of shrapnel, it was hot four minutes ago. 173 00:09:49,284 --> 00:09:50,981 It hit me in the head. 174 00:09:54,419 --> 00:09:56,639 - There was steel hitting people 175 00:09:56,683 --> 00:09:58,249 and we were rushing people to medical. 176 00:09:58,293 --> 00:10:01,688 And we came out here and this lady just fell over. 177 00:10:04,691 --> 00:10:07,694 - Now we have this huge crime scene. 178 00:10:07,737 --> 00:10:10,261 There's officers and other agents 179 00:10:10,305 --> 00:10:12,220 that are picking stuff up. 180 00:10:12,263 --> 00:10:14,091 Pandemonium is going on. 181 00:10:14,135 --> 00:10:16,572 People are tramping through our crime scene. 182 00:10:16,616 --> 00:10:19,227 I was walking around trying to look for, you know, 183 00:10:19,270 --> 00:10:21,533 used napkins, just anything that we could use 184 00:10:21,577 --> 00:10:24,493 to maybe help control bleeding. 185 00:10:24,536 --> 00:10:27,931 And that's when I came across 186 00:10:27,975 --> 00:10:30,238 Alice Hawthorne. 187 00:10:31,718 --> 00:10:33,676 - Tell me about Alice Hawthorne. 188 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,157 - Alice Hawthorne was there at the park that night 189 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,681 with her daughter. 190 00:10:38,725 --> 00:10:41,075 They were enjoying the concert. 191 00:10:44,121 --> 00:10:48,386 She was actually sitting about another 45 feet 192 00:10:48,430 --> 00:10:52,390 from where we were at, just over my shoulder and to the left. 193 00:10:52,434 --> 00:10:54,697 And her daughter was sitting right next to her. 194 00:10:54,741 --> 00:10:58,092 Kristy, there was at least 10,000 people 195 00:10:58,135 --> 00:11:03,184 that was between her and where we were trying to 196 00:11:03,227 --> 00:11:04,881 move people back. 197 00:11:04,925 --> 00:11:09,494 There was at least two large pieces of pipe that hit her. 198 00:11:09,538 --> 00:11:11,888 And somehow they missed all of us. 199 00:11:11,932 --> 00:11:14,412 All of us and all of the other people in between. 200 00:11:14,456 --> 00:11:16,414 And she didn't survive this. 201 00:11:16,458 --> 00:11:18,025 [reporter]: One person was killed. 202 00:11:18,068 --> 00:11:21,681 She's been identified as Alice Hawthorne of Albany, Georgia. 203 00:11:24,335 --> 00:11:26,816 - I'm still having trouble now 204 00:11:26,860 --> 00:11:30,515 really believing that she's not here. 205 00:11:51,014 --> 00:11:54,844 - We must not let these attacks stop us from going forward. 206 00:11:54,888 --> 00:11:56,890 We cannot let terror win. 207 00:11:56,933 --> 00:11:59,675 The Olympics will continue. The games will go on. 208 00:11:59,719 --> 00:12:02,722 The Olympic spirit will prevail. 209 00:12:02,765 --> 00:12:07,727 [trumpet playing] 210 00:12:15,647 --> 00:12:17,475 - It's the next day after the carnage. 211 00:12:17,519 --> 00:12:18,912 - Now we're on high alert. 212 00:12:18,955 --> 00:12:21,479 I just remember running from incident to incident, 213 00:12:21,523 --> 00:12:22,742 call to call to call. 214 00:12:22,785 --> 00:12:26,049 - Is this because it was not just security 215 00:12:26,093 --> 00:12:28,051 and law enforcement calling it in, 216 00:12:28,095 --> 00:12:29,792 but citizens were now more aware 217 00:12:29,836 --> 00:12:31,751 and were feeling a little bit panicked? 218 00:12:31,794 --> 00:12:33,665 Absolutely, kind of like when you have a major crime, 219 00:12:33,709 --> 00:12:35,798 they put out an 800 number, and you just get 1000 calls. 220 00:12:35,842 --> 00:12:37,278 Anybody that saw anything. 221 00:12:37,321 --> 00:12:39,889 Our first call was a briefcase sitting under a tree. 222 00:12:39,933 --> 00:12:42,849 Who's gonna leave a briefcase sitting under a tree? 223 00:12:42,892 --> 00:12:44,938 We're thinking this is the next bomb, right? 224 00:12:44,981 --> 00:12:47,810 Your heart rate's up, you're thinking, you know, 225 00:12:47,854 --> 00:12:51,596 I can be Bill, we might be facing this next threat. 226 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:54,077 And you can't call the bomb squad to every call, 227 00:12:54,121 --> 00:12:55,775 'cause there are so many. 228 00:12:55,818 --> 00:12:58,603 And you want to just say, let's bring the bomb squad first, 229 00:12:58,647 --> 00:13:00,649 but you can't, we're a diagnostic team. 230 00:13:00,692 --> 00:13:02,999 So we had to try to minimize that 231 00:13:03,043 --> 00:13:04,958 and see if we could clear it ourselves. 232 00:13:05,001 --> 00:13:08,048 We were able to get an X-ray really quick and determined 233 00:13:08,091 --> 00:13:10,615 that this briefcase was not an IED. 234 00:13:10,659 --> 00:13:13,314 - So Bill, what's the next thing you remember? 235 00:13:13,357 --> 00:13:16,056 - Well, it was about 11 AM when I found out that 236 00:13:16,099 --> 00:13:18,754 there was a 911 call the night before, 237 00:13:18,798 --> 00:13:22,497 presumably by the bomber in relation to the pack. 238 00:13:27,894 --> 00:13:31,114 The 911 call that came in at the Centennial Park 239 00:13:31,158 --> 00:13:33,377 it had a male voice and it warned that the bomb 240 00:13:33,421 --> 00:13:34,639 would go off in 30 minutes, 241 00:13:34,683 --> 00:13:36,076 when in fact it was more like 20 minutes. 242 00:13:36,119 --> 00:13:38,513 That means one of two things. 243 00:13:38,556 --> 00:13:40,820 He meant to harm somebody, to war that you had 30 minutes 244 00:13:40,863 --> 00:13:42,082 to catch people off guard. 245 00:13:42,125 --> 00:13:44,475 Or something happened in the timing 246 00:13:44,519 --> 00:13:46,129 with the initiation of the bomb. 247 00:13:46,173 --> 00:13:50,917 - Bill's on top of it, and had no idea there was a 911 call. 248 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:52,440 - Correct. 249 00:13:52,483 --> 00:13:55,660 [Bill]: Between bad phone connections and jammed lines 250 00:13:55,704 --> 00:13:58,402 at the police command center, the 911 call 251 00:13:58,446 --> 00:14:00,622 didn't get passed on to us in time. 252 00:14:03,016 --> 00:14:05,670 I had worked all through the night 253 00:14:05,714 --> 00:14:09,457 and into the afternoon of the of that same day. 254 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:11,938 - Oh my God, so you've almost been up now for 24 hours. 255 00:14:11,981 --> 00:14:13,504 - Yeah, yeah. 256 00:14:20,642 --> 00:14:24,341 And so I was emotionally spent. 257 00:14:24,385 --> 00:14:25,952 But I couldn't get to sleep. 258 00:14:25,995 --> 00:14:29,433 And so I turn on the TV, and I see one of the security guards. 259 00:14:29,477 --> 00:14:33,350 - I am a person that did the job that I was supposed to do. 260 00:14:33,394 --> 00:14:36,049 - So you turn on the TV and you see the security guard 261 00:14:36,092 --> 00:14:38,355 that you recognized from the night before. 262 00:14:38,399 --> 00:14:40,488 And this is where you learned his name? 263 00:14:40,531 --> 00:14:41,793 - Richard Jewell. 264 00:14:41,837 --> 00:14:43,273 - I was in the right place at the right time. 265 00:14:43,317 --> 00:14:45,623 And used my training in the way I was taught. 266 00:14:45,667 --> 00:14:49,845 - I remember the only time that I had talked to him or saw him 267 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:53,109 was after we determined that this was a bomb for sure 268 00:14:53,153 --> 00:14:55,546 and we need to get people away. 269 00:14:55,590 --> 00:14:57,548 So obviously, it sparked my attention 270 00:14:57,592 --> 00:15:00,943 with what he was trying to communicate and convey. 271 00:15:00,987 --> 00:15:02,902 - What was he saying that surprised you? 272 00:15:02,945 --> 00:15:04,947 First of all, he was taking credit 273 00:15:04,991 --> 00:15:07,297 for finding the bomb. 274 00:15:07,341 --> 00:15:10,039 - I spotted the bag laying on the ground under the bench. 275 00:15:10,083 --> 00:15:12,302 [reporter]: And what did it look like? 276 00:15:12,346 --> 00:15:15,175 - It looked like a green bag. 277 00:15:15,218 --> 00:15:18,134 I can't really get much more detail than that. 278 00:15:18,178 --> 00:15:22,269 Once we identified it as a suspicious package, 279 00:15:22,312 --> 00:15:26,751 we, neither one of us got too much closer to it. 280 00:15:26,795 --> 00:15:29,754 - They noticed that there was a backpack on the ground, 281 00:15:29,798 --> 00:15:33,149 we didn't know it was a bomb until I opened the pack 282 00:15:33,193 --> 00:15:34,411 and looked inside. 283 00:15:34,455 --> 00:15:38,154 - I feel for the victims and their families. 284 00:15:38,198 --> 00:15:40,678 And I just hope we catch the people that did it. 285 00:15:40,722 --> 00:15:45,509 Because, I just, we did everything we could. 286 00:15:45,553 --> 00:15:48,164 - Is that the only time you saw him on TV? 287 00:15:48,208 --> 00:15:50,471 - No, he was on a lot. 288 00:15:50,514 --> 00:15:53,126 He was became quite a celebrity for a while. 289 00:15:53,169 --> 00:15:55,563 [Jewell]: I just happened to be at the right place 290 00:15:55,606 --> 00:15:57,782 at the right time 291 00:15:57,826 --> 00:16:00,524 and did the job that I was trained to do. 292 00:16:00,568 --> 00:16:02,526 - And there was a myriad of other things that started 293 00:16:02,570 --> 00:16:05,007 going through my mind, one of which was 294 00:16:05,051 --> 00:16:08,706 the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 295 00:16:08,750 --> 00:16:12,319 where we had a law enforcement officer make, 296 00:16:12,362 --> 00:16:15,409 place, discover and dismantle 297 00:16:15,452 --> 00:16:18,020 a device that was to get credit 298 00:16:18,064 --> 00:16:21,197 and to bolster a struggling career. 299 00:16:23,547 --> 00:16:25,245 [Kristy]: Richard Jewell had some indicators. 300 00:16:25,288 --> 00:16:27,551 He had been arrested and prosecuted 301 00:16:27,595 --> 00:16:29,118 for impersonating a police officer, 302 00:16:29,162 --> 00:16:30,685 where he arrested an individual. 303 00:16:30,728 --> 00:16:34,036 [Bill]: And Mr. Jewell was not assigned 304 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:35,951 to work that night in the park. 305 00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:39,128 And he traded with someone that was there closer 306 00:16:39,172 --> 00:16:41,174 to the tower and to the stage. 307 00:16:41,217 --> 00:16:45,004 We had to consider him as a person of interest. 308 00:16:52,533 --> 00:16:53,708 [Bill]: Richard Jewell was a person 309 00:16:53,751 --> 00:16:57,320 that we could not overlook. 310 00:16:57,364 --> 00:16:59,801 There was just a lot of unusual things, 311 00:16:59,844 --> 00:17:02,934 coupled with his background that we found out about. 312 00:17:02,978 --> 00:17:05,285 [man]: FBI has suspect bomber. 313 00:17:05,328 --> 00:17:07,374 [reporter]: Richard Jewell has gone from a hero 314 00:17:07,416 --> 00:17:08,810 to a man under siege. 315 00:17:08,853 --> 00:17:10,986 - Can you stop for a second please? 316 00:17:11,030 --> 00:17:14,511 - Can you categorically say that you did not do this? 317 00:17:14,555 --> 00:17:16,252 - I did not do it. 318 00:17:17,819 --> 00:17:21,518 - The FBI invited Richard Jewell to come in and talk about 319 00:17:21,561 --> 00:17:23,607 first responders under the guise of, 320 00:17:23,651 --> 00:17:25,740 hey, look, this is a training video. 321 00:17:25,782 --> 00:17:28,002 And he was all happy to come in and talk about that 322 00:17:28,047 --> 00:17:29,570 and was willing. 323 00:17:29,613 --> 00:17:31,659 [Bill]: We had to figure out a way to read him his rights 324 00:17:31,702 --> 00:17:33,400 without scaring him away. 325 00:17:33,443 --> 00:17:35,315 [FBI agent]: I'd like to preset you with this form, 326 00:17:35,358 --> 00:17:37,273 I'd like you to kind of read it over, 327 00:17:37,317 --> 00:17:40,885 tell me if you understand everything that's on that form. 328 00:17:40,929 --> 00:17:43,279 - I don't know if I should call an attorney now or not, 329 00:17:43,323 --> 00:17:45,803 cause I don't know if this video is for... 330 00:17:45,847 --> 00:17:49,285 I don't know if I'm being investigated for this, 331 00:17:49,329 --> 00:17:52,680 or if this is for what you have told me it is for. 332 00:17:52,723 --> 00:17:54,812 - Richard Jewell answered every question 333 00:17:54,856 --> 00:17:56,988 the agents asked him during the interview. 334 00:17:57,032 --> 00:17:58,729 - Did they read him his Miranda Rights? 335 00:17:58,773 --> 00:17:59,861 - No, they did not. 336 00:17:59,904 --> 00:18:02,211 - This was a noncustodial interview 337 00:18:02,255 --> 00:18:04,344 and you read someone their rights 338 00:18:04,387 --> 00:18:07,608 when they're in a custody situation, and he was not. 339 00:18:07,651 --> 00:18:10,176 He was invited to the office, he came voluntarily. 340 00:18:10,219 --> 00:18:13,570 - Often we offer main subjects in matters 341 00:18:13,614 --> 00:18:14,832 to come in and talk to us. 342 00:18:14,876 --> 00:18:16,660 And surprisingly a lot of them do. 343 00:18:16,704 --> 00:18:19,010 - Regardless, he requested an attorney 344 00:18:19,054 --> 00:18:20,664 and he ended the interview. 345 00:18:20,708 --> 00:18:22,536 And that's how it's supposed to work. 346 00:18:22,579 --> 00:18:25,016 - This is to advise you that based on the evidence 347 00:18:25,060 --> 00:18:28,455 developed to date, your client, Richard Jewell, 348 00:18:28,498 --> 00:18:30,718 is not considered a target of the federal 349 00:18:30,761 --> 00:18:32,894 criminal investigation into the bombing 350 00:18:32,937 --> 00:18:35,418 on July 27th, 1996, 351 00:18:35,462 --> 00:18:37,768 at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. 352 00:18:40,597 --> 00:18:42,860 - Frank, so, what else is happening 353 00:18:42,904 --> 00:18:44,688 during the investigations in Atlanta? 354 00:18:44,732 --> 00:18:47,300 What else is going on that you guys learned? 355 00:18:47,343 --> 00:18:48,910 - So, the Atlanta Olympics ends. 356 00:18:48,953 --> 00:18:50,825 We're working every lead that we have, 357 00:18:50,868 --> 00:18:53,393 but we don't have anything solid to go on. 358 00:18:53,436 --> 00:18:55,003 Then, six months later, 359 00:18:55,046 --> 00:18:57,527 we get information about the Sandy Springs bombing 360 00:18:57,571 --> 00:18:59,790 of the women's clinic near Atlanta. 361 00:19:05,448 --> 00:19:07,972 So in the women's clinic, the bomb goes off. 362 00:19:08,016 --> 00:19:09,496 Nobody's killed. 363 00:19:09,539 --> 00:19:11,498 I don't even think it was open at the time. 364 00:19:11,541 --> 00:19:13,456 And so you got first responders coming, 365 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:15,415 and while they're standing there with the cameras rolling 366 00:19:15,458 --> 00:19:19,201 in the parking lot between the cars and the garbage bin, 367 00:19:19,245 --> 00:19:21,247 boom, a dynamite bomb goes off. 368 00:19:21,290 --> 00:19:22,248 [reporter]: Where were you in the building 369 00:19:22,291 --> 00:19:23,162 and where was the explosion? 370 00:19:23,205 --> 00:19:24,032 [explosion] 371 00:19:24,075 --> 00:19:25,599 Oh my God! 372 00:19:30,821 --> 00:19:33,737 [sirens] 373 00:19:35,086 --> 00:19:38,786 - Back off the street! 374 00:19:38,829 --> 00:19:40,701 - The secondary devices are intended 375 00:19:40,744 --> 00:19:43,660 to target first responders. 376 00:19:43,704 --> 00:19:45,619 [blast] 377 00:19:45,662 --> 00:19:47,098 [man]: Get back, get back, let's go! 378 00:19:47,142 --> 00:19:49,275 [reporter]: That blast, felt for miles, 379 00:19:49,318 --> 00:19:51,973 tore through a dumpster on the other side of the building. 380 00:19:52,016 --> 00:19:54,236 - Whoa, we had a bomb just go off. 381 00:19:55,150 --> 00:19:57,674 - Our whole ER room and our recovery room is gone. 382 00:19:57,718 --> 00:19:59,850 Our whole clinic is gone. 383 00:20:06,422 --> 00:20:09,295 - Then there's another bomb that goes off. 384 00:20:09,338 --> 00:20:12,385 Right, the lesbian bar called the Other Side Lounge. 385 00:20:12,428 --> 00:20:14,213 There's a bombing there. 386 00:20:14,256 --> 00:20:16,389 Again, no one's injured or killed. 387 00:20:16,432 --> 00:20:19,827 But when the first responders arrive, 388 00:20:19,870 --> 00:20:21,829 a secondary device is located. 389 00:20:21,872 --> 00:20:25,224 And again, the secondary device is planted far enough back 390 00:20:25,267 --> 00:20:28,575 and to the side of the parking lot where people are pulling in, 391 00:20:28,618 --> 00:20:31,839 that's going to detonate and harm or kill first responders. 392 00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:41,283 After getting everybody to a safe distance, they use a robot. 393 00:20:41,327 --> 00:20:43,329 They want to try to preserve the evidence. 394 00:20:43,372 --> 00:20:46,288 So they use the robot arm to try to take this 395 00:20:46,332 --> 00:20:49,422 and get photographs as they're opening the pack. 396 00:20:49,465 --> 00:20:52,468 And as it slowly kind of with its hook arm, 397 00:20:52,512 --> 00:20:53,774 you know, pulling it apart 398 00:20:53,817 --> 00:20:57,386 and something happens and the bomb goes off. 399 00:21:04,393 --> 00:21:06,569 - What ties the three bombings together now 400 00:21:06,613 --> 00:21:08,354 is the metal plate. 401 00:21:08,397 --> 00:21:11,182 [Kristy]: So we're talking about the Centennial Park bombing, 402 00:21:11,226 --> 00:21:13,707 the women's clinic bombing 403 00:21:13,750 --> 00:21:16,710 and the lesbian bar bombing are tied together. 404 00:21:16,753 --> 00:21:18,407 And how we know this? 405 00:21:18,451 --> 00:21:21,671 [Bill]: The first bomb in Olympic Centennial Park 406 00:21:21,715 --> 00:21:24,108 was three 14 inch pipes. 407 00:21:24,152 --> 00:21:27,503 They were large pipes with cement nails 408 00:21:27,547 --> 00:21:31,551 and wood screws glued to the outside of the pipe 409 00:21:31,594 --> 00:21:35,337 to add more shrapnel so that more people can be injured. 410 00:21:35,381 --> 00:21:39,167 I also saw a steel plate the bomb was resting on. 411 00:21:39,210 --> 00:21:43,563 The plate was used to directionalize 412 00:21:43,606 --> 00:21:46,653 the blast spray as it goes off. 413 00:21:46,696 --> 00:21:50,265 The connection is they all have the steel plate 414 00:21:50,309 --> 00:21:53,312 and they're used to directionalize the force, 415 00:21:53,355 --> 00:21:55,575 almost like a shaped charge. 416 00:21:55,618 --> 00:21:57,881 Forensically, we were able to find out 417 00:21:57,925 --> 00:22:00,188 that all three metal pieces 418 00:22:00,231 --> 00:22:02,756 came from the same sheet of steel. 419 00:22:02,799 --> 00:22:04,497 - Probably the same person made them? 420 00:22:04,540 --> 00:22:06,107 - Yes. 421 00:22:06,150 --> 00:22:08,414 - Then the investigative team received a letter 422 00:22:08,457 --> 00:22:12,287 that was claiming credit for the two most recent bombings, 423 00:22:12,331 --> 00:22:15,290 at the gay nightclub and the women's health clinic. 424 00:22:15,334 --> 00:22:17,510 And it contained statements that expressed 425 00:22:17,553 --> 00:22:19,468 really extreme ideology. 426 00:22:19,512 --> 00:22:23,167 The letter was signed "Army of God." 427 00:22:24,255 --> 00:22:25,822 As our investigation progressed, 428 00:22:25,866 --> 00:22:28,695 we learned that he targeted the Olympics to protest abortion 429 00:22:28,738 --> 00:22:32,263 and because he thought the games promoted global socialism. 430 00:22:33,395 --> 00:22:37,660 - We clearly believe that we are dealing with a deranged killer. 431 00:22:37,704 --> 00:22:39,358 [Frank]: Time is of the essence. People are dying. 432 00:22:39,401 --> 00:22:42,578 And we don't know where the next bomb is going to go off. 433 00:22:50,978 --> 00:22:53,372 - Then there's another bomb that goes off. 434 00:22:53,415 --> 00:22:55,591 - The Birmingham abortion clinic bomb. 435 00:22:55,635 --> 00:22:58,289 The bad guys actually waited for the proper moment 436 00:22:58,333 --> 00:23:01,597 to cause as much harm and death as he could when it detonated. 437 00:23:01,641 --> 00:23:04,383 - He pulls the switch. 438 00:23:05,471 --> 00:23:08,561 - He's willing to kill. He's committed. 439 00:23:08,604 --> 00:23:11,520 - Someone notices someone is walking away from the scene. 440 00:23:11,564 --> 00:23:13,174 - Now we have a suspect. 441 00:23:13,217 --> 00:23:16,917 - That launched probably one of most extensive manhunts 442 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,441 and fugitive investigations in the FBI's history. 443 00:23:21,225 --> 00:23:23,140 Even as he was on the run, 444 00:23:23,184 --> 00:23:26,230 he hadn't given up trying to kill people. 445 00:23:26,274 --> 00:23:29,277 He was planning to bomb the FBI command post.