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A very historical day for the Olympics in Atlanta with fame and tragety
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There was a dramatic begining to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta when the greatest boxer of all time Muhammed Ali lit the cauldron to start off the olympics
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Everything was going good. Everyone was doing good winning awards
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At 1:07am a 911 caller from a phone booth down the street uttered the words "there is a bomb in Centennial Park, you have 30min".
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At 1:20 the bag exploded, spreadingshrapnel around a corner of the park injuring 110 people and killing 1 person
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the one person that died was a woman named Alice Hawthorne
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The olympic bomber was found hidding in North Carolina
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The bombers name was Robert Rudolph and he was 36 years old at the time
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This was not his only bombing that he has done. He also has been charged for bombing a gay night club, and a clinic that perfomed abortions
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Rudolph was sentenced to death