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Domestic terrorism:
The Unabomber case
 ASSOCIATED PRESS | Between May, 1978 and April, 1995 a domestic terrorist known as The Unabomber struck 16 times, mailing bombs which killed three people and injured 29. His victims ranged from corporate executives to university professors and appeared to have been chosen as representatives of modern industrial society. "Unabomber" comes from UNABOM, an FBI codeword for the case. Early targets of the bomber were universities and airlines.In June 1996 the Unabomber said he would stop his attacks if his 35,000-word "manifesto" were published. On Sept. 19, 1996 the New York Times and Washington post did so. The treatise was also distributed on the Internet. When David Kaczynski read the Unabomber Manifesto he was convinced that the writer was his older brother Theodore, a former mathematics professor who had become a hermit in Montana. He contacted the FBI. On April 3, 1996 Theodore Kaczynski was arrested. When investigators searched his cabin they found an original copy of the Unabomber Manifesto. On Jan. 22, 1998 Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement in which he admitted being the Unabomber. |
Background on Theodore Kaczynski:Theodore J. Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, in Chicago. After finishing Evergreen Park High School south ofChicago in three years, he attended Harvard University, graduating in 1962 when he was barely 20.He then moved to the University of Michigan, where he received a master's degree in 1964 and a Ph.D. in 1967, bothin mathematics. His dissertation was titled Boundary Functions, according to school officials. He taught as an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1967-68 schoolyear, according to Harvard and Berkeley records. He resigned in June 1969. After quitting Berkeley, Kaczynski lived in Utah in the late 1970s and early 1980s where he did odd jobs and meniallabor, according to the federal official. He bought land in Montana 10-12 years ago and has been building a cabin theresince then. |
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Chronology:May 25, 1978: The first Unabomber bombing: A package found at aUniversity of Illinois parking lot in Chicago is brought to the returnaddressee at Northwestern University, where it explodes, injuring one.Nov. 15, 1979: Twelve people suffer smoke inhalation after a bombexplodes in the cargo hold during an American Airlines flight, forcing anemergency landing at Dulles International Airport near Washington. June 10, 1980-Nov. 15, 1985: Several injured as bombs explode over aperiod of 5 years at United Airlines president's home; at University of Utah;at Vanderbilt University; at University of California, Berkeley; at Universityof Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dec. 11, 1985: Sacramento computer rental store owner Hugh Scrutton iskilled when he picks up a bomb outside his store. Feb. 20, 1987: A witness in a Salt Lake City computer store sees a manin a hooded sweat shirt and aviator sunglasses placing a bomb. Attacks ceasefor six years. June 1993: Unabomber communicates for the first time in a letter to TheNew York Times explaining his eco-anarchist views. Dec. 10, 1994: Advertising executive Thomas Mosser is killed when a bombexplodes at his New Jersey home. April 24, 1995: Final bombing: Timber industry lobbyist Gilbert Murrayis killed opening a package in his Sacramento office. Sept. 19, 1995: Washington Post and New York Times publish Unabombermanifesto. April 3, 1996: Theodore Kaczynski apprehended. Jan. 22, 1998: Kaczynski admits being the Unabomber, accepts plea agreement. | Selected Dayton Daily News stories:FEDS HOLD EX-PROFMAN MAY BE UNABOMBER Published: Thursday, April 4, 1996 Page: 1A By: By Len Iwanski ASSOCIATED PRESS UNABOM WRITINGS FOUND UNABOMBER: UNABOMBER TRIAL COURTS
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