problems in the system. >> we got to figure out how do we create a better nation in rural for all of god's children? >> we want to hear each other and we're not feeling that in america today, we're not feeling that we're hearing each other, but we have to make an effort in the united states we have to make an effort to understand to get beyond or go beyond these rather difficult times oh, yeah. you having a good time? [cheering] oh, yeah. [explosion]

jim bacon: we heard a tremendous blast, and all of a sudden all chaos ensued. everybody started running. rick schwein: he set the thing up to hurt people in a mass way. [crowd clamoring, whistle] mark mckay: we don't know if that person is going to strike again. [blows whistle] let's go! mark mckay: who did this? is it part of a strategy or is it a singular event? we didn't know any of that. [theme music] hello, and welcome to how it really happened. i'm jesse l. martin. in the summer of 1996, all eyes were on atlanta, georgia for the centennial olympics. the southern city put on quite a show for the opening ceremony as muhammad ali lit the olympic flame.

but just eight days later, at a celebration in centennial park, a security guard noticed a suspicious backpack under a bench. security and law enforcement moved quickly to evacuate the massive crowd, but time was not on their side. this is how it really happened. [indistinct chatter] it's a weekend night in atlanta. it's hot. the streets are packed. [groovy music] there is entertainment at centennial park. the beating heart at night of the olympics. (singing) something about you driving me crazy they had music playing, bands coming in. they had food in the park. i would say probably 40,000, 50,000

people in the park that night. very festive evening. people partying. this is where the party's at. party of the century. i was a reporter/anchor, part of the olympic team for cnn, and we made our way through the park on the outer edges. i was hustling. we're about 10 minutes before the broadcast starting. we have security teams that are working through the crowds, watching for anything out of the ordinary. we're taking all the precautions we can. tom davis: i was making my last pass through the park. and as i was walking up the sidewalk right there by the nbc tower, i was approached by a young man named richard jewell. richard was assigned as a security guard for that tower. richard jewell had spotted this backpack, military model backpack.

placed underneath the bench that was directly in front of the tower. he had handled a number of suspicious bags in the park over the previous days, and we just tried to identify if anybody owned the bag. and that's what richard and i did. and, of course, nobody claimed it. i called it in to our command post and told them that we had a suspicious bag, and they dispatched our bomb diagnostic team. and the evaluation team looked at the knapsack, and got a glimpse on the inside. and then, they backed up from the bag and told me at that time that it did look suspicious and that they had called for a bomb squad. so in the meantime, we were in the process of trying to set up a perimeter, to evacuate the immediate area. but as we're moving people from that area-- [explosion] whoa. --there was an explosion behind me. i was only standing about 18 yards from it.

it was a very forceful blast. a lot of heat, and it just completely forced me to the ground. believe me, it was a bomb. right, right, right. let's go, please. i felt it-- felt to go through me. i felt it in my chest. it was pretty jarring. i looked at my producer, mike, and said, that was a heck of a way to end the show, thinking positively that maybe that was pyrotechnics. he immediately said, no, i think something bad just happened. [whistle] [crowd clamoring] i looked up and i saw smoke. smoke was rising from the front of the venue. security guards were saying, get out, get out. [whistle] tom bacon: the police and everyone started yelling, get down, get down. there's a bomb. people started just running, running out of the park as fast as they could.

we made a beeline down the street, up the stairs, got in front of the camera. presenter: this is cnn breaking news. we have had word now of an explosion at the centennial olympic park. we're going to go now to mark mckay, who is live at nike park. mark. in the vicinity of about 10 minutes ago, there was a loud, very concussive explosion that occurred right in the vicinity of the at&t global village. that is the building that you see right over my shoulder here. there were a good number of people in the park. there was a band playing. we actually were making our way through the park from cnn center to get to this location when the explosion occurred. i saw the sense of panic to get out. it turned serious very fast. it was very loud. it made you wince. it made you wince when you heard it, and a lot of people just had a very startled look. and immediately as we reached the gates, they were hustling people to get out of the park.

jim bacon: right now, we've got thousands and thousands of people evacuating the area. the police moved in very quickly. and as far as we know now, from eyewitness accounts, we've got some injuries. i remember very distinctly the smell of gunpowder. i don't think i'll ever forget that.

. you having a good time? [cheering] oh, yeah. [explosion] whoa. jim bacon: right now, it is just an absolutely chaotic scene, and millions of people here are running up the street, and the police are running in. i can't personally see anybody that's hurt, but several eyewitnesses have told me varying accounts of injuries. and the accounts that i have heard make it sound like the injuries are indeed serious. [ominous music] i looked around, people were screaming, many injured, laying around. jim bacon: a policeman was hit with shrapnel and was bleeding profusely on the ground. a number of other people in the area here have been hit and are hurt. tom davis: we just tried to deal with that situation the best we could. going person to person trying to determine the severity of their injuries.

and as we were doing that, one of them was just laying there, and she wasn't moving. and when i walked up to her, i just put my fingers down on her carotid artery just to check to see if i could get a pulse, and i got nothing. [sirens wailing] numerous emergency vehicles are now descending on the scene. we're seeing ambulances and a lot of fire units, and the area seems to be certainly being sealed off as investigators get in there and tend to the injured. [sirens wailing] it is very chaotic. you have people down, people wounded. we were walking down the street. boom. big explosion. the guy-- girl's leg got blown off. survivor: it felt like it was gonna-- oh my god, dude. - it felt like an-- survivor: there's, like, people were hurt. --earthquake. tom davis: medical people got there very, very quickly, and started dealing with the injured people. [blows whistle] let's go! come on. tom davis: so we were just trying to make sure that they all got loaded

up and carried to the hospital. [blows whistle] reporter: what blew up? what blew up? a car? a truck? i'm not sure. it had to be-- all i know is i heard wah and kabuck, you know? just like a big pipe bomb. damn, something just hit me. the sound itself was more than any earthquake i've ever heard, and it actually shook the ground. there's people just running out. i mean, terrified. people crying and people were injured. back up! back up! back-- back up! back up! cnn was putting things on live almost immediately. so for people to see footage of a bombing almost instantly after it happened was startling. people use the term war zone. imagine it's dark. every kind of red and blue light. the park has been sealed.

emergency units from ambulances to fire units, paramedics have arrived on the scene, along with a number of law enforcement agencies. we started getting more and more witnesses that were nearby and starting to hear about the amount of injuries, the shrapnel that went everywhere. it was like standing next to heavy artillery when it goes off, is the best way i could describe it. we were about two minutes away from the stage. you know, right, almost at the stage. and it was just-- it was just boom. it was so loud it rang our ear-- my ears. cnn has been able to confirm through just talking with law enforcement officials here in the city of atlanta that there is at least one confirmed death and at least 38 confirmed injuries. tom davis: alice hawthorne, who was there with her daughter, was killed by a piece of shrapnel. a turkish cameraman dies running to the scene. kitty pilgrim: law enforcement officials believe, we are told, that it was a bomb that exploded at around 1:20 this morning eastern time at the heart of the olympic centennial park. when it happened, it seemed very shocking to everyone,

and especially such an iconic event as the olympics. our role as part of an fbi swat team was to lock the village down, protect the athletes. the concern was, would there be an attack in the olympic village? is this part of a larger scheme? the park was closed. it was a crime scene, and they brought in a lot of federal agents from the atf and from the fbi and from the gbi. and together, they worked the crime scene. centennial park becomes a cordoned off area. and then, the bomb techs came in, and they were sweeping through the area slowly, carefully, marking evidence, bagging where necessary. [sirens wailing] in the immediate aftermath of the bombing, all personnel that had been designated to the forward command post set up

protocols for collecting evidence, identifying witnesses, and coordinating other response personnel. we go to the hospital and start interviewing people about what had happened, what they had seen, what they had heard. well, we start interviewing business owners, looking for whatever they might have to help the investigation, you know, whether it be videotapes or people that might have come or gone overnight and seen anything. it's hectic, but it is controlled. we've had a lot of planning, a lot of training, and all that kicks in in the first few hours. [pensive music] the first person to catch sight of the suspicious knapsack that turned out to contain the bomb was security officer richard jewell. mr. jewell is joining us from our studio in atlanta. i spotted the bag lying on the ground under the bench. and then, once we actually determined that it there was a suspicious item, we tried to get as many people out of the area as we could.

but we got about 150 people off the grass area right directly in front of the bomb before it exploded. [explosion] whoa. ladies and gentlemen, may i have your attention, please? we did a press conference in the morning. at approximately 1:25 am this morning, an explosive device detonated in the centennial park downtown. at this point, we understand that we have 110 injured and two people who have died. at approximately 1:00 a.m. also, the atlanta police department received a 911 call. the individual is, we believe, a white male with an indistinguishable accent. caller (on phone): there is a bomb at centennial park. you have 30 minutes. the bomb had gone off within 15 or 20 minutes of the call.

[explosion] we were wondering if it was a setup, particularly when it went off early. [sirens wailing] is he targeting second responders, knowing that they might be around that bomb, trying to render safe? the motives of the bomber at that point, i don't think are clear to any of us.

st joining us or just now hearing about the explosion at atlanta's centennial olympic park overnight, two people were killed. the fbi reports at least 110 people injured, but, of course, those reports will vary as reports are coming in from different hospitals. we will spare no effort to find out who was responsible for this murderous act. we will track them down. we will bring them to justice. we will see that they are punished. we cannot be intimidated by acts of terror. as tragic as it was-- and it was very tragic-- the decision was made to continue with the olympic games. there's an element of, we're not going to give in to terrorism. [pensive music] i was assigned to work the crater area where the bomb blew up. i found a-- fragments of what appeared

to be some kind of a backpack and a metal plate. i saw two eveready energizer 6 volt lantern battery fragments from two different batteries. there were parts of a timing device, a mechanical timer, which kind of gave investigators a clue as to how that device functioned by a time delay. tom bush: there were cut nails laying around on the ground. these were added for shrapnel effect to fly through the air and kill people. kitty pilgrim: we did hear quite early on that the bomb had been designed to cause the largest number of injuries with nails and directed blast to cause real human hurt. female reporter 1: doctors say shrapnel injured many of the more than 100 patients treated. doctor: some metal, perhaps some glass. we don't know. that's gonna have to be determined as the pieces are removed and as any x-ray activity goes on as well. female reporter 1: doctors say injuries range from minor cuts

to more serious chest and abdominal wounds. if you could picture a military-style backpack about as full as you could fill it up, that's what this bomb looked like in size. there were three pipe bombs that were mounted onto a steel plate, directing the blast in a particular direction. there were an additional several pounds of nails added as shrapnel. this device was 40 pounds of pipe bombs, and it gave you the feeling that we're not dealing with, you know, a rookie. rick schwein: those early hours are really important because you're trying to preserve forensic evidence, you're trying to identify a good timeline, you're trying to determine who did this. and is it a lone actor or is it a group? are there gonna be follow on attacks? is it part of a strategy or is it a singular event? and we didn't know any of that. [tense music]

the samples were taken, given to the guy in charge of the fbi team, and he sent those to washington, dc to be analyzed to identify the explosive. male reporter 1: while the fbi waits for lab results. federal agents are working on a timeline, trying to figure out the 911 call. it was made from a public telephone close to the park, and we were trying to identify where that phone was and who might have been able to see who was making the call. remember, two different things were happening at the same time. in the park, richard jewell had spotted a backpack. and what they don't realize is that there's been a 911 call, warning that there's a bomb in centennial park. that information never gets to them. caller: there is a bomb in centennial park. you have 30 minutes. it didn't make it to us at our command post. male reporter 2: according to police department transcripts,

there was a 10 minute delay in dispatching police after the 911 call due to bad phone connections, jammed lines at the police command center, and a frantic search for the park's address. it's always the small things that create problems. the address for centennial park had not been incorporated into the 911 communications center database. dispatcher: ok, wait a minute. centennial park. you put it in and it won't go in? operator: no. unless i'm spelling centennial wrong. how are we spelling centennial? dispatcher: c-e-n-t-e-n-n-i-a-l. operator: i'm spelling it right. it ain't changing. centennial park is not going. tom davis: if we had had the 911 call when it came in along with a suspicious bag, i think that we may have been able to create a larger perimeter. there would have been a more-- more of a sense of urgency on our part, but we just didn't have the benefit of that information.

really happened. the search is on for whoever planted a bomb in centennial olympic park. richard jewell, the man who discovered the bomb, was initially hailed as a hero for saving lives, but within days, the fbi receives a tip and the investigation takes an unexpected turn.

[pensive music] i'm glad he spotted it, because if we had to move the people away that were seated directly in front of that bag, we'd have had a number of deaths in the park. him spot in that bag and then us dealing with it as we did-- he saved lives that night. jeanne meserve: do you feel you did all you could? yes, ma'am. the only thing i wish we could have done was got everybody out of the area. i feel for the victims and their families. and it's a very, very bad thing, and i just hope that we catch the people that did it. this seemed like a hero. and he was the hero. that's the important thing to remember. he was the hero of this story. he was flattered. i mean, he's a regular person. he wants to talk, but he doesn't want to talk. he doesn't feel all that comfortable with everybody

saying he's the hero when there were many heroes that day. at the bomb site in centennial olympic park, investigators spent the day sifting for clues. authorities tell cnn there could be an arrest in just days. after we get done analyzing an explosive device, you try to make a mock up of the device so you can more understand it. you want to be able to reconstruct the bomb. this is the size of the pipe bomb. this is the size of the battery that was used. this is the type of clock timer that was used. we have a bomb database. atf has one. fbi has one. they are actually connected where they can say, hey, here's some of the components that we're looking at. do you have anything like this? woody johnson: of course, we are looking at and thinking about every group that could be the source of the terrorism. and after the phone call, we're slowly concluding, but leaving the door open that it's an american either operating by himself or with a group.

we also are running a tip line, and receive several hundred calls. we had three different major groups of tips-- two white militia groups, and then the third were providing information about richard jewell. the president of piedmont college, which is one of the places richard had worked before, he calls the fbi and he says, you know, i had some problems with this guy. you might want to take a look because richard had been overzealous in his enforcement duties. he was stopping students. he was stopping faculty. he was doing it by the book. he was a little bit of a pain in the ass, and that eventually, you know, got him pushed out from his job. with all of the pressure on them, they dug deeper and deeper. they saw things that they thought were suspicious. richard jewell was described as a wannabe cop. he was described as being really aggressive

on this particular college campus where he'd been a campus police officer. he'd had some trouble, failed employment with other law enforcement. so when you put these things together, it's like, all right, this is a guy we probably need to take a look at. and the fbi goes back and they look at the cnn interview again, and they're convinced that he was self-aggrandizing. he was trying to pump himself up. i was in law enforcement before i got this job. i've been in law enforcement for six years in georgia, and i just came down to atlanta to do the games. and you have to understand that there's a context for this, which is that during the la olympics, there had been a bomb scare, and the guy who finds the bomb was a guy who had planted the bomb. and he had been in law enforcement, so now the fbi's playbook is, well, some dude did it in la.

maybe some dude did it in atlanta. and it just snowballs. [tense music] we get a call from somebody over at the atlanta journal constitution, and the guy says, we're about to run a special edition, extra edition, naming richard jewell as a suspect, and we want to send you over a copy. the information gets leaked that he's a suspect. there are these guys running around with newspapers. and out of the corner of my eye, i see the headline. fbi suspects "hero guard may have planted bomb." well, i know damn well who the hero guard is. i just can't freaking believe it.

in atlanta's centennial olympic park and for helping evacuate some people before its contents exploded. but now, richard jewell, the olympic security guard who spoke openly to cnn and others about the events of last saturday, reportedly is himself a suspect in the bombing.

how did that all come together as quickly as it did? made those of us who don't know police work and don't know detective work say, wow, that was quick. male reporter 3: do you have any way of knowing why they would consider you a suspect. mm, no, i have no idea. male reporter 4: did you do it? [scoffs] no, sir. i didn't do it. we went over to his house and said, we want to interview you. and he said, can i come to the office? we decided to try to bring him out by telling him we're gonna make a training video and we need his experience on tape so that we can use it in the future, and just try to see while two agents are interviewing him, talking with him. and we thought, well, if he's involved in this thing, you know, his ego might eventually incriminate him. i call the fbi headquarters. i'm watson bryant. i'm rich jewell's lawyer. i understand you have him down there and i want to talk to him.

they said to me, we don't have him. they're telling me he's not there when he is there. so i called them back, and this time they connect me to him. i ask him what he's doing. he's telling me he's helping them with a training film. i ask him has he seen the newspaper. he says he is not. and then, i read him the headline. all i want to know is, is he free to go? is he under arrest? no, he's not under arrest. so he's free to go? yes, he's free to go. great. they were interviewing him dishonestly, and so i told him to get out of there. then, i met him over at his apartment, where there was a media swarm. stop for a second. --was over 10 minutes. did they say you're a suspect, mr. jewell? what kind of questions were they asking? somebody that made this device knew what they were doing. does richard have enough training, has he done devices?

does anyone know or have seen him purchase equipment? you just dig into his whole lifestyle. we got the search warrant pretty quickly for his mother's apartment, where he was living at the time. in atlanta, federal agents are focusing on the home of a man recently hailed as a hero. female reporter 2: armed with a federal search warrant, fbi agents entered the atlanta apartment of security guard richard jewell, searching for evidence that might tie him to the saturday morning bombing in centennial olympic park. watson bryant: and then, they searched the apartment. now, they're deep in here. i didn't know why they were doing what they were doing, and i also was naive enough to believe that they wouldn't be doing this unless they had a good reason for it. female reporter 2: from time to time, agents emerged carrying bags or boxes, but would not comment. and today, neither would the once talkative jewell.

[playing trumpet] female reporter 3: it was the reopening ceremony, not of the games, but of the park. the park where a bomb went off early saturday morning. [singing, playing guitar] now, they've returned to sing and pray and remember the victims. [pensive music] centennial olympic park was back in business, and there was a resolve to bring people back. you need your bag off your body. tom davis: we had bag checks-- put your umbrella on the table, sir. --magnetometers set up at every entrance, about twice the number of security people assigned to the park. so there was quite a few changes made. gates opened to the left. gates opened to the right. thank you. thank you. in the meantime, the investigation proceeds, and they do have people chasing other leads. the public was asked if anyone had

photographs or video of centennial park before the explosion-- [explosion] --and after the explosion to please in that video in to the fbi so it could be analyzed. we were hoping, since almost everybody coming to the olympics has got a camera and taking pictures, that they could've provided us with something that would be helpful. it was a pretty massive undertaking, so we're talking 35 millimeter film and any other video from video cameras that they might have been carrying so we could use that to try to identify anyone in the area of that particular tower. we knew that location of the bomb. we had a time frame when the bomb was put there. so we were just looking for anybody who had a picture of that site at that time. and we got one video that had somebody there with the backpack between their legs for about an hour

before the bomb detonated. bingo, you know? it's gotta be the guy. you tell a literate individual sitting on the bench, but you couldn't get anything really specific about the image. there was no definition to it. and we literally called this individual-- he became known as the blob man. we just couldn't do anything with it. the fbi didn't have the expertise or the technology to really improve much. when someone had the idea nasa might have some capabilities that we need to look at from things they do with their satellite imagery. capabilities that was very, very advanced specifically to enhance the video. jack daulton: so it was sent to nasa. [pensive music] in 1996, i was head of the solar physics team at nasa's marshall space flight center in huntsville, alabama. one thing that was going on at marshall space flight center was trying to fix hubble images.

we had computer techniques that could basically put the image back together. take a star that looked blurry and turn it back into a star. we had taken a lot of the blurry hubble images and made them quite presentable. the fbi was aware we were doing all of this. and shortly after the bombing, the center director at marshall space flight center had been contacted by the fbi in atlanta, asking for help clearing up the image of the bomber. myself and my colleague paul meyer ended up really working on it. we knew that this was really important, that we were doing something that would perhaps save people's lives, if you catch him before he does it again. the first thing they gave us was a video from the night of the bombing of the backpack. it was very dark, hard to see.

remember, this is 1996, when video was a vhs for consumers. notoriously poor quality. even the best one we had, which was of broadcast quality, even that was hard because it was so dark that night. we had at least two other critical videos from the night that were from families. one of those videos caught the bomber actually sitting on the bench where the backpack was left. we couldn't really define anything, but he was sitting in an area at the right time, at the right place. you just knew you were looking at the bomber. but the images were too dark, too noisy to try to do any image restoration on a single image. paul and i had to invent a brand new process for stabilizing video to get the clean images. it was, um-- it fascinating to watch the progression, but it

would not happen overnight.

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they got television stations focused at his residence, waiting for him to be arrested. are you under arrest? watson bryant: it's quite a ride to go from the hero to the villain, so he was devastated by the idea that people believed that he could be the bomber. where are you at-- what kind of questions were they asking? watson bryant: and just seeing it day after day, the avalanche of negative publicity. every time you turned a channel, it was on, over and over all day long. you've been to the fbi? male reporter 5: can you give us your reaction to what's happened today? cnn has learned federal agents are working on a timeline, trying to figure out if jewell had enough time to make the 911 call, then return in time to discover the bomb. there's a phone call to 911 operator, and the phone call says--

caller: there is a bomb in centennial park. you have 30 minutes. it was made from a public telephone close to the park. we say to ourselves, well, wait a minute. how does richard jewell go from being where he is to walking several blocks away to make the phone call, and then come back? and we set a stopwatch. we walk from centennial park up to the phone, which is a few blocks away, make a phone call, hang up the phone, walk back. male reporter 5: according to the fbi timeline, the 911 warning call came in at 12:58 am. the fbi says, the bomb went off at about 1:25 am. that's some 27 minutes after the warning call. i realized that he didn't have the time to make that call, get to the park and then leave--

male reporter 5: the gbi agent who says jewell pointed out the suspicious knapsack to him says it was about 23 minutes from the time jewell first asked for his help until the bomb exploded. --nor would he have had time to plant the bomb, go to that bank of payphones, and get back to the park and his duty station if he was the bomber. male reporter 5: if the time lines are right, that means jewell came to the gbi agent around 1:02 am. that would have left jewell only some 4 minutes to make the 911 call and return to his post in the park. it's 3 and a half blocks from the payphone to the park. i only know that for the 20 minutes prior to the detonation of the bomb, richard was right there with me, trying to get people to move. there's no way richard could have made the phone call. there are people who are beginning to get skeptical. i think what they did was cherry pick a bunch of stuff, you know? like, he fits the profile of the lone bomber.

there is no damn profile of a lone bomber. this is just total made up stuff. there's no hard evidence in there. male reporter 6: are you mr. jewell's attorney? his lawyers are doing a good job, and they keep going at the fbi, and he suffers and he suffers mightily. eventually, they start being more clues. and there are some people who think, wait a minute, this guy did it? where does he have the bomb training to do this? well, we couldn't find any evidence that he had ever made or been interested in bombings. did whole variety of background checks that led to his personality assessment. we eventually just said, i think the odds are extremely remote that he did this. [ominous bellowing music] we thought it'd be a good idea,

when we got the clearance letter, to set up a press conference. we all were there, and richard got up and spoke. i am not the olympic park bomber. i am a man who, from july 30 until october 26th, lived every waking minute of those 88 days afraid that i would be arrested and charged with a horrible crime-- a crime i did not commit. it made the mainstream media all around the world. it was the lead story everywhere. it was a good day, but at the same time, i think all of this finally got to the jewells. richard jewell: for 88 days, i lived a nightmare. for 88 days, my mother lived a nightmare too. now, i must face the other part of my nightmare. while the government can tell you that i am an innocent man,

the government cannot give me back my good name or my reputation. instead of being remembered as a hero, he is remembered as either a victim or as a guy that got away with it, and that is-- it's shameful that that has happened to somebody that did such a good thing. it's proven that richard jewell is not the bomber. and by that time, we're following up on new information, leads are coming in, and then going back and reevaluating other leads that have been exhausted. it's very frustrating because we weren't making any progress. only way you get more clues is if another crime is committed. you're not rooting for another crime to be committed, but it's gonna help you build a case. [tense shrieking music]

story just in here for you. there's been an explosion-- according to an associated press write through this morning-- an explosion in a building just north of atlanta. on january the 16th, i was driving in my car to the office, and i heard over the radio that there had been an explosion at the sandy springs professional building. the building does house an abortion clinic, we're told. happened at 9:30 this morning or around then. it's at the atlanta northside family clinic. no injuries reported. don't know the cause yet. the abortion clinic was on one corner, and someone had placed a small bomb device with a timer on it at the door of the clinic. and when it went off, it blew out a lot of windows and made a big mess. so when i respond there, the crime scene around the building has been set up. i go inside the tape, and i'm conferring with other agents. i walked out of the crowd, over where two vehicles had been parked. i'm standing there on the phone--

[explosion] [yells] --and the second device went off. my reaction was not of surprise. it was anger. son of a bitch. this asshole has set up another one. i had never been concussed by a blow like that. [explosion] - [yells] joe kennedy: we were showered with dirt, and a lot of people were injured. there were people on the ground, and that's when things went into a different mode. tom bush: so you lose your hearing, and we've got people down, vehicles that have been affected by the blast. and so now, you're in a real full blown panic. joe kennedy: everyone worked to try to secure the scene and attend to the possible victims. i got a chunk of meat carved out of my right ankle, then i had like three puncture wounds in the back, but the bulk of it hit me in the side of the head. the second bomb had been perfectly placed. someone definitely thought it over.

had the first one as a ruse to draw people in. i mean, what he had done was the perfect way to go after law enforcement. now, we're looking at an individual who is targeting first responders, targeting abortion clinics. officer (on radio): hey, control, we just had another explosion down here at the center. nearly six months after the centennial park bombing, atlanta is rocked by another explosion, this time at a women's health clinic. is this connected to the centennial park attack? and if so, who is planting these bombs and why? the hunt for the person or people responsible continues in part two of atlanta bombing. i'm jesse l. martin. thank you for watching. [audio logo] emily lyons: it was premeditated.