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What is Richard Jewell Incident

Chapter 14
International Perspectives on Rethinking Evil in Film and Television
The incident that a security guard named Richard Jewell, who was in the 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympic Park and then alerted and mobilized security forces to a suspicious package that exploded, was declared as a national ‘hero’ after the explosion and vilified as ‘bomber’ due to the information leaked to the media by the FBI.
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From “Hero” to “Evil”: The Movie Richard Jewell as an Example of Moral Panic
Bilal Süslü (Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4778-6.ch014
Abstract
The security guard, who was the pioneer to prevent the suspicious package left in the entertainment area, was primarily declared as ‘hero' after the incident in Atlanta during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and then he was vilified as ‘evil' as a result of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and media representations about the incident. The incident was adapted into the movie Richard Jewell in 2019, directed by Clint Eastwood. The movie, in which Jewell's devastating life is narrated in the screenplay, is regarded as to be worth analyzing because the media reflects the witch hunt that Stanley Cohen defines as a moral panic. Consequently, the moral panic creation of the media is tried to be analyzed through the movie Richard Jewell in this study.
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