Historical Marker
Sgt. James W. Parsons
Historical marker location:
211 S 6th St, Griffin, Georgia
( Memorial is on South 6th Street south of East Taylor Street, on the right when traveling south.)
U.S. Army - Airborne Engineer Corps.
The city of Atlanta hosted the Summer Olympics in 1996, and it was the first time that a bomb exploded at the Olympic Games, killing two people and injuring over 100 others.