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FBI investigators and profilers analyze pipe fragments, shrapnel, videotape and the 911 call tape for clues

about the bombing at Centennial Park in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1996 Olympic Games.

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Fingerprints, Knapsack, Manufacture, Videotape, Home Video, News, Surveillance Cameras, 911 Call,

Analysis, Voice, Records, Phone Company, Eyewitness, Sketch, Composite, Suspect, Arrest, FBI,

Federal Bureau of Investigation, Behavioral Analysis Unit, Profile, Justice Department, Threat, Police,

Package, Suspicious, Bomb Squad, Olympic Games, Village, Atlanta

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Pipe Bombing at Olympics Centennial Park Left Trove of Evidencehttps://archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/browse/?cuecard=5500

Source: NBC Nightly News Resource Type: Video News ReportCreator: Tom Brokaw/Fred

FrancisCopyright: NBCUniversal Media,

LLC.Event Date: 07/28/1996 Copyright Date: 1996Air/Publish Date: 07/28/1996 Clip Length 00:03:13

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"Pipe Bombing at Olympics Centennial Park Left Trove of Evidence." Fred Francis, correspondent. NBC

Nightly News. NBCUniversal Media. 28 July 1996. NBC Learn. Web. 19 March 2015

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Francis, F. (Reporter), & Brokaw, T. (Anchor). 1996, July 28. Pipe Bombing at Olympics Centennial Park

Left Trove of Evidence. [Television series episode]. NBC Nightly News. Retrieved from

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Transcript

Pipe Bombing at Olympics Centennial Park Left Trove of Evidence

TOM BROKAW, anchor (Atlanta):

Good evening. Atlanta tonight is a two-part city: one part, the Olympic Games, continuing to draw huge

crowds even in rainy weather and the plans to reopen Centennial Park. The other part, the intense

investigation into the bombing early Saturday morning at the park that injured more than 100 and killed a

Georgia woman. We begin tonight with the investigation and NBC's Fred Francis. Fred, what's the latest?

FRED FRANCIS, reporting:

Tom, one federal agent told NBC News, “We are not looking for the Unabomber. This guy is not that

smart. We'll catch him.” While that remains to be seen, there is a lot of evidence.

And agents today continue to comb the park for the tiniest fragments of the bomb, literally filling boxes of

critical debris. An FBI agent told NBC News that in cases like this, most--yes, most--of the bomb is

recovered. Jamie Gorelick of the Justice Department was upbeat.

Ms. JAMIE GORELICK (Deputy Attorney General): We're making a lot of progress, so I'm very

encouraged. But I'm not going to be discussing any--any leads, and we're going to let the investigators do

their jobs.

FRANCIS: From all the fragments collected, FBI and ATF forensic experts will put together a long list of

leads to follow. First, does the bomb have any specific characteristics that match the more than 800 pipe

bombs exploded each year in the US? All the explosive debris will be scraped for the bomber's blood or

saliva, looking for DNA. Each bomb piece examined for fingerprints, then compared with the national

database. The bomb fragments, along with nails and screws used for shrapnel will be matched with the

company, which made them. Parts of the knapsack will tell agents where it was made and sold and

perhaps to whom.

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Based on the accounts of three eyewitnesses, the FBI confirmed it does have a composite sketch of a

suspect. Federal agents will compare eyewitness information and the sketches with dozens of minutes of

videotape from patrons of the park at the time of the bombing, surveillance cameras that were operating in

the area, as well as videotape made available by news organizations. The warning 9-1-1 call from a bank

of phones near the bombing site is crucial. Investigators will do scientific voice analysis on that audiotape,

and phone company computer records will be checked for other calls made from that phone and others

nearby.

Mr. DAVID TUBBS (Federal Bureau of Investigation): Everything that's being done in terms of the

evidence, the 9-1-1 call, everything else we get in, will be referred to our behavioral science unit. They'll

review everything and attempt to come up with a profile.

FRANCIS: Not surprisingly, at every venue today every package and bag and backpack was checked.

More security agents were on the street, and more attention was being paid to increasing numbers of

threats called into the Olympic police. A portion of the Olympic Village was cleared this afternoon after a

portable radio was found. And at this bank, police blew up a suspicious package. That has happened a

dozen times today. It seems no threat is unimportant.

While the FBI does not have a suspect, there is the type and volume and quality of evidence that almost

always leads to an arrest.

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