One-Time Olympic Park Bombing Suspect Richard Jewell Dies

[The Central Scrutinizer]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/29/richard.jewell/index.html

[alfaniner]

I was just thinking about this the other day. Funny how everybody remembers his name, but nobody recalls the guy who really did it (many don't even realize the real guy was ever caught!)

[Darth Rotor]

I was just thinking about this the other day. Funny how everybody remembers his name, but nobody recalls the guy who really did it (many don't even realize the real guy was ever caught!)
Do you mean Eric Robert Rudolph?

http://topics.cnn.com/topics/eric_rudolph

Did you ever notice how assassins and major criminals are often referred to by all three names?

Lee Harvey Oswald
James Earl Ray
Eric Robert Rudolph
Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan* (when does one stop with that name, anyway?)
William Jefferson Clinton
Meh, that was my inner monologue running amok again. :cool:

DR

*His name is actually Sirhan Bishara Sirhan

[Sir Robin Goodfellow]

My sympathies to Mr. Jewell's loved ones.


As an aside, I hope Eric Rudolph dies being raped by an elephant.

[Darth Rotor]

My sympathies to Mr. Jewell's loved ones.


As an aside, I hope Eric Rudolph dies being raped by an elephant.
Why do you hate elephants? ;)

DR

[Alt+F4]

Did you ever notice how assassins and major criminals are often referred to by all three names?

Actually, yes I did wonder about this and did a bit of research on it. It seem that none of these folks used all three names before they became criminals. The use of all three names comes from police who used the middle name to make sure they had the correct person. The media first heard the person's name from the police and it just stuck.

[shemp]

Do you mean Eric Robert Rudolph?

http://topics.cnn.com/topics/eric_rudolph

Did you ever notice how assassins and major criminals are often referred to by all three names?

Lee Harvey Oswald
James Earl Ray
Eric Robert Rudolph
Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan* (when does one stop with that name, anyway?)
William Jefferson Clinton
Darth Butthead Rotor
Meh, that was my inner monologue running amok again. :cool:

DR

*His name is actually Sirhan Bishara Sirhan

Fixed it for you. :D

[CptColumbo]

I didn't remember Rudolph's name, probably subconsciously trying to forget such a human being existed, but I remember the case and his motive for killing innocent people (of course he doesn't believe they were innocent, even the cameraman).

[shuize]

Richard Jewell does not get enough credit for saving lives. Most people only remember him for being mistakenly suspected. But, as the article notes, his actions in finding the suspicious package and moving people away before it went off were largely forgotten in the media hype that followed.

Dead at 44 of natural causes. Man, that is way too young.

[alfaniner]

Every headline I saw referred to him as the "Olympic park bombing suspect". I thought that was kind of sad.

[HarryKeogh]

What sucks is that when they searched his house they found his porn stash and that piece of info was made public. Like he was the only guy with a porn stash!

[LibraryLady]

He spoke last year at my nephew's memorial lecture (http://www.scholars.psu.edu/luchinsky/2006LuchinskyJewellWood.html), but I couldn't go. I was sorry to have missed it. (It was the dead of winter and I couldn't get away from work.)

I was infuriated the whole time the FBI was hounding him; the guy was a hero. Plus because they didn't catch E.R.R. at the time, he went on to murder and blind other innocents.

I just noticed the acronym Rudolph's name makes. How appropriate.

[Loss Leader]

As a resident of Atlanta at the time of the Olympic Park bombing, I'd just like to say that I was a resident of Atlanta at the time of the Olympic Park bombing.

[LibraryLady]

As a resident of Atlanta at the time of the Olympic Park bombing, I'd just like to say that I was a resident of Atlanta at the time of the Olympic Park bombing.

Thank you. I feel much better now.

[Steven Howard]

Every headline I saw referred to him as the "Olympic park bombing suspect". I thought that was kind of sad.

My local rag at least had the decency to put "wronged" in front of "Atlanta suspect."

[Elizabeth I]

Do you mean Eric Robert Rudolph?

http://topics.cnn.com/topics/eric_rudolph

Did you ever notice how assassins and major criminals are often referred to by all three names?

Lee Harvey Oswald
James Earl Ray
Eric Robert Rudolph
Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan* (when does one stop with that name, anyway?)
William Jefferson Clinton
Meh, that was my inner monologue running amok again. :cool:

DR

*His name is actually Sirhan Bishara Sirhan

Repetition of names seems to be a - Moslem? Arabic? - pattern. My stepfather worked with another professor whose first and middle names were Mohammed Mohammed. Anybody know why this repetition?

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Repetition of names seems to be a - Moslem? Arabic? - pattern. My stepfather worked with another professor whose first and middle names were Mohammed Mohammed. Anybody know why this repetition?

Not me. Not me.

[Steven Howard]

Repetition of names seems to be a - Moslem? Arabic? - pattern. My stepfather worked with another professor whose first and middle names were Mohammed Mohammed. Anybody know why this repetition?

I went to elementary school with a kid named Thomas Thomas. I don't think his family were Muslim or Arabic, though.

[This Guy]

Repetition of names seems to be a - Moslem? Arabic? - pattern. My stepfather worked with another professor whose first and middle names were Mohammed Mohammed. Anybody know why this repetition?

Too lazy to search for facts, but I believe it has to do with the way Muslim's "hand names down". If you have several Mohammeds before you (Father, Grandfather, Great Grandfather..) you could end up with multiple uses of the same name. I think Uncles and other's names can come into play also. I've seen some names that were made up of 5 or more names in total.

I know an Ahmed Ahmed, but haven't asked him about his name.