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Written by drs

Category: Biography

Published: 23 March 2020

• trial by media
• fake news
• historical event
• false accusation

Another masterpiece from Clint Eastwood. This movie takes on the "fake news" media and an FBI investigation that tried to "fit up" the accused, without having sufficient evidence of his criminality.

Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser) is protrayed by the authorities as a security guard (cop wannabe) who, despite alerting police to the existence of a pipe bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics at Atlanta, Georgia, was actually responsible for planting the bomb to gain "hero" status.

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