Historical Marker
Speaker Crisp
Historical marker location:
139 Taylor Street, Americus, Georgia
( Marker is on Taylor Street, 0.1 miles east of Lee Street (Georgia Route 377), on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 1960
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.