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CLEARED. RICHARD JEWELL, 33, Atlanta security guard; of involvement with the Olympics bombing; by federal prosecutors. Initially labeled a hero for pointing authorities to a suspicious-looking knapsack that contained a bomb, Jewell later became a victim of law-enforcement leaks and overzealous news media...
BORN: Dec. 28, 1947, Birmingham EDUCATION: Auburn U, B.A., 1969; U of Alabama, J.D., 1972 FAMILY: Wife, Linda; three children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: National Guard, 1969-71 OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Alabama Senate, 1983; Alabama House, 1983-87; U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 59444, Birmingham...
Arkansas made civil rights history in 1957 when Governor Orval Faubus resisted integration, using the National Guard to defend segregation, at Little Rock's Central High School. A poor state, with the third-lowest median income in the U.S., the "Land of Opportunity" has nevertheless produced its share of big-money entrepreneurs--like Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and chicken magnate Don Tyson--and President Bill Clinton. Despite the stature of a Democratic native son in the White House, the past two elections have seen a rise in Republican turnout here, and the G.O.P. is pulling out all the stops...
...friend's car died, so he placed a picture of it at the alter and asked the Virgin Mary to guard it in the celestial garage," Agredano said...
...week, as the FBI cleared him in their continuing investigation, pending further evidence. The news came 88 days after The Atlanta Journal fingered Jewell as the focus of the FBI's probe. Frenzied media hype followed the initial headlines. You remember the camera crews staked outside of the security guard's house, the sensational news headlines and the interviews with psychologists, who were kind enough to explain the "complex" that led Richard Jewell to endanger people's lives. And now, 88 days later, he has been cleared and proclaimed an innocent...