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.
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