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Subj: Today in History - Sept 19
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On this day in 1995, a manifesto by the Unabomber, an anti-technology
terrorist, is published by TheNew York Times and Washington Post in the
hope that someone will recognize the person who, for 17 years, had been
sending homemade bombs through the mail that had killed and maimed
innocent people around the United States. After reading the manifesto,
David Kaczynski linked the writing style to that of his older brother
Ted, who was later convicted of the attacks and sentenced to life in
prison without parole. All told, the Unabomber was responsible for
murdering three people and injuring another 23.
Theodore John Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, in Evergreen Park,
Illinois, a Chicago suburb. As a student, he excelled at math, graduated
from Harvard and received a Ph.D. in math from the University of
Michigan. In 1967, he got a teaching job at the University of California
at Berkeley, but quit two years later. In 1971, Kaczynski purchased some
property in Lincoln, Montana, with his brother. There, the future
Unabomber built a small, secluded cabin where he lived off the land as a
recluse from the late 1970s until his arrest on April 3, 1996.
In May 1978, an unmailed package was found in a University of Illinois,
Chicago, parking lot; a security guard was later injured when he opened
the package. The following year, another bomb exploded at Northwestern
University, in Evanston, Illinois, injuring one person. In November of
that same year, 12 people on an American Airlines flight from Chicago to
Washington, D.C., were treated for smoke inhalation when a bomb in a
mailbag aboard the plane caught fire. Investigators eventually linked
the three incidents, as the bombings continued and spread around the
country. In December 1985, the owner of a computer store in Sacramento,
California, was killed by a bomb filled with nail fragments. After a
similar explosion in Salt Lake City two years later, investigators got
their first eyewitness description of the bomber after someone reported
seeing a man in aviator sunglasses and a hooded sweatshirt at the scene
of the crime. In April 1995, TheNew York Times received a letter from
the Unabomber stating that the killings would stop if the paper printed
a 35,000-word manifesto. In September of that year, the Times and the
Post complied, and David Kaczynski eventually recognized his brother
Ted’s writing as that of the Unabomber and contacted the FBI.
73 de Scott KF5JRV
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