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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1997
Page
3
FBI says images show a hooded man sitting on a bench in Olympic Park about an hour before a bomb exploded last year. Sun 12:19 a.m. photos and 12:28 a.m. footage show a parcel under the bench as investigators seek more images to fill a nine minute gap.
Americans celebrated the nation’s birthday with fireworks and parades while marking 50th anniversaries including the Roswell UFO crash and the Hollister biker riot. Crowds gathered in Hollister for festival events, Philadelphia hosted Liberty Bell events with Ray Charles, and Roswell drew visitors to the UFO Museum amid exhibits on crop circles and alleged abductions.
Charles Kuralt, the avuncular CBS reporter behind On The Road, died at New York Hospital from lupus complications aged 62 on July 4. The longtime broadcaster helped shape American storytelling, logging decades of back roads reporting before later anchoring Sunday Morning. He appeared at Cedar Rapids in 1996 for a library foundation benefit.
Fox Eye Institute P.D. in Cedar Rapids offers PRK and LASIK for nearsighted patients with a 15 minute guaranteed start or a $100 voucher for a future excimer laser visit. Surgeons Dr. Lee Birchansky and Dr. Linda Auer emphasize time value and provide a free refractive consultation.
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