Kevin Salwen, co-author of The Suspect, An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media and Richard Jewell, the man caught in the middle.
Richard Jewell and Rush to Judgement: What the media should be learning from an Olympic bombing
Kevin Salwen, co-author of The Suspect, An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle. will discuss this true-crime account of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing that captured the world’s attention, and the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it all.
The book is a contributing source for the Warner Bros. film Richard Jewell produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, and Paul Walter Hauser.
Free and open to the public.
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Matthew Desmond, Ph.D.
Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
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Matthew Desmond, Ph.D.
Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
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Evanston Township High School Auditorium
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Professor in the School of Public Health and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan
Doriane C. Miller, MD
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