Overdue Honor for Hero Richard Jewell

The late Richard Jewell, hero of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic bombing, is being honored by the Georgia World Congress Center with a plaque at Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park. He was a security guard during a concert when he spotted a suspicious backpack and tried clearing people out of the park. The bomb exploded, killing one and injuring dozens. However, irresponsible media outlets targeted him as a suspect, although he was later exonerated and another person was convicted of the crime. This is an overdue honor for Jewell, who never recovered from the media onslaught. “We felt it was the right thing to do,” says GWCC Executive Director Frank Poe. Indeed it is, and the boat of the GWCC is RISING…