The last time the United States hosted the Summer Olympics was in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996, producing a cavalcade of stars and a spectacle to match. From the opening ceremonies to the Parade of ...

During the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia three pipe bombs exploded killing two people and injuring 111 on July 27th.. Those killed were a woman named Alice Hawthorne who died shortly ...

America's reputation for staging major events suffered a major setback with these Olympics that seemed to lurch from one disaster to another. They were mired in controversy from the moment they ...

especially for ones overseeing the staging of Youth Olympic Games and the Winter and Summer Olympics. Credit the changes to the Atlanta woman who pressed the leaders of the 1996 Games to ...

(ATR) Ambassador and co-chair of the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics Andrew Young reflects back on the opening ceremony of the Games that began exactly 20 years ago today. As one of the best kept ...