Suspicious Package at Temple Turns Out To Be Newspapers

(ATLANTA) -- The Atlanta Police Department bomb squad was called to the the historic Temple on Peachtree Street in Midtown early Friday morning after reports of a suspicious package. It later turned out to be a bundle of newspapers.

Adding to the confusion was the fact the newspapers in question are normally delivered in the afternoon.   They are usually brought inside the Temple, but the bundle that caused the concern this morning was left in a main driveway.

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The package was reported around 6:30 a.m. at the synagogue near the Brookwood Amtrak station.

Peachtree Street was shut down from the entrance ramp of I-85 to Spring Street for much of the morning.

The incident awakened old memories from the Temple's past. The synagogue, the oldest congregation in Atlanta, was bombed in 1958. The attack was immortalized in the Academy Award-winning film "Driving Miss Daisy.