Video: '1996 Atlanta Olympic Park Bombing' (17 videos)

(Saturday, July 27, 1996, 1:20 a.m. EDT; during the 1996 Summer Olympics) — Terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb spiked with nails and screws exploded early this morning at Centennial Olympic Park, directly killing one person (another person later died of a heart attack) and injuring 111.

Video: 'The Real Centennial Park bomber Eric Rudolph - Largest Manhunt in US History - A WRAL Documentary'

It was the first of four bombings committed by Eric Rudolph in a domestic terrorist campaign against the U.S. government which he accused of championing “the ideals of global socialism” and “abortion on demand.”

Rudolph was listed as one of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives for five years, until he was caught in 2003.

In 2005, as part of a plea bargain, Rudolph pled guilty to numerous state and federal homicide charges and accepted four consecutive life sentences in exchange for avoiding a trial and a potential death sentence.