Atlanta’s Olympic bombing... Introducing ‘Flashpoint’
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Hey, tender foot listeners, my name is cola cascio, host of the new podcast flashpoint, brought to you by tender foot T, V and I heart podcasts. Some of you may remember where you were on july twenty seven thousand ninety six x when a domestic terrorist bomb, the summer olympic games held in atland, georgia, while the FBI in the media fix IT on the wrong man, a serial bomber er was planning his next more politically motivated attacks.

In flashpoint, we will explore america's greatest threat, the political and religious radical zone of homegrown terrorists. As an islander native, I have an interesting connection in the story, one you'll hear about early on in the podcast. The official trailer is out now just search flash point in your podcast APP to follow the show while you're here. Check out this sneak peek of episode one.

July forth is in the step.

The first night of the one hundred anniversary of the world's greatest sporting event, and no birthday party ever had an invitation list. White like this.

Welcome to a land olympics.

Steady the olympics wear in at .

land on one thousand nine hundred and ninety six. And this was a really big game for us. I mean, there, as I don't know, forty, fifty, sixty thousand people every night in centennial park.

Bill bergman in Angel Cassier are two members of the band jack mac in the heart attack. They were slated to perform ten nights in a row at the ninety six olympics center stage, the gig of a lifetime.

We rehearse a special show just for that olympic gig, and every night we would come on after travis treat or Kenny Rogers are all kinds of different people. And we would play eleven and night to one in the morning.

but the six night of their run would be their last.

There was a lot of security to get back stage.

They ran us through interpol. I mean, I play sax iphone, and the guy literally looked down my horn through the tube.

But anybody could get into the audience. I don't even know if there was any security at all.

Well, no, I mean, have fifty thousand people were in their backpacks into that park. And IT was a giant normous stage, and they had these two caterpillar look at things on each side of the stage that were one hundred and fifty feet long on one hundred and feet up in the air. And that's where they would show the videos. We were seven stories up, and we're planning our set and we're driven, I mean, everything is just perfect.

And then then we were getting towards the end of the set, and we did an original song call. I walked alone, and IT was right. After the song ended in, our leeds singer started announcing the next song.

耶 一天两天。

Thank you.

别的 绝对 是我 给你的 事。

And that's when the bomb went off.

We just froze in place. The whole bench just throws. We didn't know what to do. And then somebody came up to us and said, we got to get out of the park.

IT was instant n tanee pandemonium, like the world rarely sees.

Some ideas are so explosive they change the world, but sometimes they jeopardized the very ground we stand on, leaving ordinary lives on their wake, rippling out for generations. I'm color cascio, and this is flash point.

The bomber gets into elemental part this morning was an evil act of terr, an act of coatee that stands in sharp contrast to the courage for the olympic athletes.

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