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    The Cautionary Tale of Richard Jewell

    Dec 20, 2019 3 minutes
    BY WOLF SCHIZER

    IN 2019 WE ARE USED TO A 24/7 NEWS cycle driven by social media, cable news, relentless leaks of confidential information and widespread conspiracy theories.

    But a lot of that was still novel in 1996, when Richard Jewell was wrongly accused of planting a bomb at the Atlanta Summer Olympics. Spotlighted in a new book (Abrams Press) by Kevin Salwen and Kent Alexander, and in Clint Eastwood’s movie , Jewell’s story

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