Libel victim Richard Jewell, only 44, died. He had some recent kidney problems.
It was a hell of a note the media, specifically the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, went around accusing him of being the 1996 Olympic bomber, and he never lived down the notoriety long after the real culprit, anti-abortion terrorist Eric Rudolph, was captured.
It was one of the all-time lows in the media's history.
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