Centennial Olympic Park bombing

E86587

bombing mass casualty incident terrorist attack

The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terrorist attack during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in which a pipe bomb exploded in a public gathering area, killing two people and injuring over a hundred others.

Aliases (2)

1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing ×1
1996 Olympic bombing ×1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	bombing → mass casualty incident → terrorist attack →
alsoKnownAs	1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing →
attackType	pipe bomb explosion →
category	1990s in Atlanta → 1996 crimes in Georgia → Attacks on sports events → Improvised explosive device bombings in the United States → Terrorist incidents in the United States in 1996 →
city	Atlanta →
country	United States →
date	1996-07-27 →
eventContext	1996 Summer Olympics →
fatalities	2 →
fatalitiesDirect	1 →
fatalitiesIndirect	1 →
followedBy	1997 Atlanta abortion clinic bombing → 1997 Otherside Lounge bombing → 1998 Birmingham abortion clinic bombing →
indirectFatality	Melih Uzunyol →
injured	111 →
investigatingAgency	Atlanta Police Department → Federal Bureau of Investigation →
legalOutcomePerpetrator	life imprisonment without parole →
location	Centennial Olympic Park →
mediaCoverage	extensive international coverage →
motive	anti-abortion extremism → anti-government extremism →
notableVictim	Alice Hawthorne →
partOf	Eric Rudolph bombings →
perpetrator	Eric Robert Rudolph →
perpetratorArrestDate	2003-05-31 →
perpetratorCitizenship	United States NERFINISHED →
perpetratorPlea	guilty →
Richard JewellRole	security guard →
Richard JewellStatus	exonerated →
securityImpact	increased security measures at Olympic venues →
state	Georgia →
suspectInitiallyAccused	Richard Jewell →
target	crowd at Centennial Olympic Park →
targetType	civilians →
time	01:20 EDT →
warningCall	yes →
warningCallRecipient	9-1-1 emergency line →
weapon	pipe bomb →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
1996 Summer Olympics → Games of the XXVI Olympiad →	notableEvent
Centennial Olympic Park bombing ("1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing") →	alsoKnownAs
Centennial Olympic Park ("1996 Olympic bombing") →	significantEvent