Olympic Park Bombing Fast Facts

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Updated 1235 GMT (2035 HKT) July 22, 2021

Convicted "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski terrorized the country with a series of mail bombs over nearly two decades. The Harvard graduate killed three people and wounded 23 others prior to his arrest in 1996. Kaczynski pleaded guilty in 1998 and is serving a life term in the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. Click through to read about other attacks carried out by Americans on American soil.
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Americans attacking Americans in recent years – Convicted "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski terrorized the country with a series of mail bombs over nearly two decades. The Harvard graduate killed three people and wounded 23 others prior to his arrest in 1996. Kaczynski pleaded guilty in 1998 and is serving a life term in the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. Click through to read about other attacks carried out by Americans on American soil.
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Oklahoma City was the site of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil before September 11, 2001. The 1995 bombing of the state capital's federal building left 168 dead. Timothy McVeigh, a white supremacist anti-government activist and former U.S. soldier, was executed for the attack in 2001. Terry Nichols was convicted as a co-conspirator and is serving a life sentence.
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Americans attacking Americans in recent years – Oklahoma City was the site of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil before September 11, 2001. The 1995 bombing of the state capital's federal building left 168 dead. Timothy McVeigh, a white supremacist anti-government activist and former U.S. soldier, was executed for the attack in 2001. Terry Nichols was convicted as a co-conspirator and is serving a life sentence.
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A bomb exploded in Centennial Olympic Park during the Summer Games in Atlanta in 1996. One person was killed, another person died from a heart attack, and 111 others were injured. Eric Robert Rudolph was captured in Murphy, North Carolina, in May 2003 after one of the largest manhunts in U.S. history. He pleaded guilty to the Olympics bombing and to the 1998 bombing of a family planning clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed a police officer and two 1997 bombings at an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub in Georgia. He is serving four consecutive life sentences plus 120 years for the convictions.
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Americans attacking Americans in recent years – A bomb exploded in Centennial Olympic Park during the Summer Games in Atlanta in 1996. One person was killed, another person died from a heart attack, and 111 others were injured. Eric Robert Rudolph was captured in Murphy, North Carolina, in May 2003 after one of the largest manhunts in U.S. history. He pleaded guilty to the Olympics bombing and to the 1998 bombing of a family planning clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed a police officer and two 1997 bombings at an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub in Georgia. He is serving four consecutive life sentences plus 120 years for the convictions.
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Letters written with jihadist language and laced with deadly anthrax spores were sent via U.S. mail to members of the news media and Congress in the weeks following the September 11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. Five people were killed and 17 others were sickened by exposure to the letters. The FBI eventually blamed the attacks on a civilian scientist at the Army's biological research laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The suspect, microbiologist Bruce Ivins, had a history of mental illness and killed himself in 2008 before investigators brought charges against him, federal prosecutors said.
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Americans attacking Americans in recent years – Letters written with jihadist language and laced with deadly anthrax spores were sent via U.S. mail to members of the news media and Congress in the weeks following the September 11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. Five people were killed and 17 others were sickened by exposure to the letters. The FBI eventually blamed the attacks on a civilian scientist at the Army's biological research laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The suspect, microbiologist Bruce Ivins, had a history of mental illness and killed himself in 2008 before investigators brought charges against him, federal prosecutors said.
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Scott Roeder was convicted for the 2009 murder of Dr. George Tiller, who operated a clinic in Wichita, Kansas, where late-term abortions were performed. Tiller was shot to death in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita as Sunday services began. Roeder was sentenced to life in prison without parole eligibility for 50 years.
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Americans attacking Americans in recent years – Scott Roeder was convicted for the 2009 murder of Dr. George Tiller, who operated a clinic in Wichita, Kansas, where late-term abortions were performed. Tiller was shot to death in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita as Sunday services began. Roeder was sentenced to life in prison without parole eligibility for 50 years.
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In 2009, James von Brunn shot security officer Stephen Tyrone Johns with a rifle at the entrance to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington after Johns had opened the door for him. Other security guards then shot von Brunn, authorities said. Von Brunn died in 2010.
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Americans attacking Americans in recent years – In 2009, James von Brunn shot security officer Stephen Tyrone Johns with a rifle at the entrance to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington after Johns had opened the door for him. Other security guards then shot von Brunn, authorities said. Von Brunn died in 2010.
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