Life’s Been a Blast: The true story of Birmingham bomb survivor Emily Lyons
Emily Lyons survived a bomb detonated by Eric Robert Rudolph in Birmingham, Alabama on January 29th, 1998. Rudolph was on the FBI’s Top Ten list for over five years with a reward of one million dollars. The manhunt cost $30 million. Emily sustained extensive injuries, including the loss of her eye. This book is about […]
Nurse Emily Lyons, Victim of a 1998 Abortion Clinic Bombing, Speaks About the Capture of Eric Rudolph
“I lost my left eye, it damaged my right eye, broke the right side of my face, first, second and third-degree burns on the front of my body, broke my left leg…tore the muscle and skin off the front of my legs, hole in my abdomen — my intestines were hanging out.” After the largest […]
Victims Have Say as Birmingham Bomber Is Sentenced
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 18 – It was Emily Lyons’s first chance to address Eric R. Rudolph, the bomber whose attack on an abortion clinic here in 1998 left her half-blind and maimed. And she had plenty to say. Ms. Lyons, who had been the director of nursing at the New Woman All Women Health Care […]
Eric Rudolph Sentenced For 1996 Atlanta Olympics Bombing
ATLANTA – AUGUST 22: Emily Lyons, a survivor of the Birmingham, Alabama abortion clinic bombing, speaks to the media before Eric Rudolph was sentenced to four life terms for three Atlanta area bombings including one at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games August 22, 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia. Thirteen of Rudolph’s victims took the stand to […]
