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FBI offers cash for help in
solving Olympic bombing
Goldman testifies in Simpson tri;
ATLANTA (AP) — More than four
months after the Olympic bombing,
the FBI posted a $500,000 reward
Monday, and for the first time played
a tape of the 911 warning call, hoping
someone might recognize the man’s
deep, slow voice.
One-time suspect Richard Jewell,
meanwhile, reached an undisclosed
cash settlement with NBC over his
claim that news anchor Tom Brokaw
implied he was guilty of the bombing
that left two dead and hundreds
injured. NBC said it agreed to the
settlement to protect confidential
sources.
The FBI’s deputy director, Weldon
Kennedy, denied that investigators
are at a dead end, and said the
agency has made a “lot of progress.”
He said investigators believe people
have photos, videos or other infor
mation that may identify the bomber
or bombers.
FBI officials played the 911 record
ing three times. A transcript of the
call, in which the man warns “There is
a bomb in Centennial Park. You have
30 minutes,” had been released short
ly after the July 27 bombing.
The tape wasn't released earlier
because the caller apparently dis
guised his voice, Kennedy said, “and
we felt in the earlier stages of this that
we did not have enough information
to provide.”
The bombing killed one spectator
and injured more than 100 others dur
ing the early-morning concert at the
crowded Centennial Olympic Park. A
Turkish cameraman rushing to the
scene died of a heart attack.
Jewell, a security guard, was initial
ly labeled a hero for discovering the
knapsack that contained the pipe
bomb just before the blast. The knap
sack was left beneath a bench near a
light tower between midnight and
12:45 a.m., Kennedy said. The 911 call
was made at 12:58 a.m. and the bomb
exploded about 1:20.
Kennedy said it was possible for
one person to have planted the bomb
and made the 911 call.
“The time factors are such that it’s
possible one person did both,” he
said. “But ... it could also have been
two people acting in concert.”
The 40-pound bomb was
designed to injure as many people as
possible, Kennedy said. Luckily, con
cert-goers had inadvertently
knocked the bag over.
“When the bomb went off, the
majority of the blast went skyward
instead of laterally or parallel to the
ground,” Kennedy said. “Had it been
left in place ... we would have seen a
huge number of casualties and many,
many, many more people killed and
injured than what actually occurred.”
It took the FBI more than four
months to piece together fragments of
the knapsack. Displaying a replica of
the bag, Kennedy said someone, some
where has a photograph of “a person
carrying this bomb into the park.”
Jewell was considered a suspect in
part because authorities believed he
fit a psychological profile — someone
thirsty for recognition, often by law
enforcement, who creates a crisis so
he can defuse it and become a hero.
Jewell was the only named suspect
for three months before he was
cleared Oct. 26.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) —
Bringing his furious quest to prove O.J.
Simpson killed his son to a sorrowful cli
max, Fred Goldman took the stand
Monday and told of the huge void the
slaying has left in his life.
“There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t
think of Ron,” said Goldman, shooting
angry glances at Simpson and overcome at
times with such wrenching sobs that his
lawyer had to pause in questioning.
Jurors seemed grim. Most looked down
when Goldman sobbed. Two appeared to
grow moist-eyed as he narrated a series of
family snapshots and videotapes.
In one chilling moment, Ron
Goldman himself spoke to the jury,
remarking in a November 1993 videotape
that “God knows where I’ll be in a year.”
Fred Goldman wept hardest when he
told of finding a diagram in his son’s
apartment after his death showing a
restaurant he dreamed of opening.
“I never realized how far Ron had got
ten with his plans and his dreams,”
Goldman sobbed.
The diagram, displayed on a TV
screen, showed a floor plan in the shape
of an Egyptian ankh necklace that the
25-year-old Ron Goldman wore. Asked
what it symbolized, the father wept and
said, “Eternal life,” then turned toward
Simpson and added, “He doesn'ti
anymore. Kim wears it now.”
Kim Goldman, the slain
younger sister, sat in the front rowt
courtroom, dabbing at her eyes wij
tissue. Her stepmother, Patti, ands
sister, Lauren, also were in tears.
Simpson’s attorney, Robert
conducted a brief, gentle cross-examj
tion, establishing that Ron Goldm
mother, Sharon Rufo, who is a pad
the lawsuit, hadn’t seen him in 14yt)
He also showed that Fred Goldmanli
$450,000 book contract.
The plaintiffs rested when Goldi
left the stand.
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“I would attend Ku Mucker rallies and
get license plate numbers,” Wiatt said.
The KKK never got a foothold in the
Walker, Trinity and Madison County
areas because of Wiatt’s “preventative
intimidation.”
“This is a new era, and it didn’t bother me
a bit to make the Neanderthals break the
mold they had been raised in,” he said. “I
made it very clear what had to be done —
otherwise you’re breaking the law.”
The FBI not only provided an exciting
career, but introduced him to his wife
Ann, who Wiatt said has created the
relaxed and bonded household that is
necessary in his field.
Originally from Huntsville, Ala., she was
working in the personnel office of the
Bureau in Washington D.C. where he was
being trained. They met at a party for new
agents and are now in their 43th year of
marriage.
He bragged about her heavy involvement
in Bryan-College Station community service
and said, “I am known as Mr. Ann Wiatt.”
Steven Spielberg portrayed Wiatt in the
first movie he directed, Sugarland Express,
starring Goldie Hawn.
The movie concerned a 300-mile car
chase led by Wiatt involving 125 lawmen
and members of the media, ending in
Wheelock, Texas. Wiatt said his role in the
movie was misinterpreted.
Another explosive episode in his career
was the Huntsville prison standoff which
lasted for 11 and a half days — the longest
prison hostage incident ever.
Murder and drug kingpin Fred Gomez
Carrasco led the incident that held 16
prison employees hostage in a third-floor
library classroom.
After being led to believe they would be
permitted to escape, Wiatt, DPS officers and
a dozen Texas Rangers intercepted them,
ending the standoff with a 22-minute close-
range gun battle.
Wiatt was shot twice wearing a bullet
proof vest, and two female hostages, friends
of his, were killed.
On December 30, 1980, Wiatt retired
from the FBI and began working as the chief
investigator-intake attorney in the Brazos
County District Attorney’s office.
After two years in the district attorney’s
office, Frank Vandiver, the then president of
A&M, asked Wiatt to become the director of
UPD, his current position.
Wiatt credits the tools the Bui
equipped him with through his trainii
the academy.
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was as bad as his son’s death.
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to me than what happened to him.”
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training and recruitment at the UPD.
senior speech communications mi
referred to Wiatt as a living piece of hi
and described him as a positive manv
funny and receptive.
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students,” she said. “He always tells nil
come to him if I need help.”
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