By the time of his arrest, the once clean-cut assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, had grown into an eccentric 54-year-old hermit alone, aloof, paranoid and disheveled. Ted Kaczynski (1942-) Alternative names. "[9][30], In late 1967, the 25-year-old Kaczynski became an acting assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught mathematics. We have no regret about the fact that our bomb blew up the 'wrong' man, Gilbert Murray, instead of William N. Dennison, to whom it was addressed . . Michigan offered him an annual grant of $2,310 (equivalent to $20,693 in 2021) and a teaching post. Of course, I would like to get revenge on the whole scientific and bureaucratic establishment, not to mention communists and others who threaten freedom, but, that being impossible, I have to content myself with just a little revenge. It was reported in the Wall Street Journal a few years ago that many of the franchise-granting companies require applicants for franchises to take a personality test that is designed to EXCLUDE those who . In 1995, Kaczynski sent a letter to The New York Times promising to "desist from terrorism" if the Times or The Washington Post published his manifesto, in which he argued that his bombings were extreme but necessary in attracting attention to the erosion of human freedom and dignity by modern technologies that require mass organization. [22][23] Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study. After getting his manifesto "Industrial Society and Its Future" published in The New York Times and The Washington Post (under threat of more bomb attacks), the Unabomber - Ted Kaczynski - was finally identified and arrested in 1996. [89] People inspired by Kaczynski's ideas show up in unexpected places, from nihilist, anarchist and eco-extremist movements to conservative intellectuals. CBS anchorman Dan Rather called FBI director Louis Freeh, who requested 24 hours before CBS broke the story on the evening news. [96], Before the manifesto's publication, the FBI held many press conferences asking the public to help identify the Unabomber. He purposely constructed the shanty with no electricity or indoor plumbing human advances that he had come to detest. Kaczynskis DNA, however, did not match and the killings of seven people who swallowed the poisoned medicine in the Chicago area remains unsolved. Bisceglie asked him to compare the manifesto to typewritten copies of handwritten letters David had received from his brother. His bombs grew more sophisticated through the years and impressed authorities. Kaczynski later told investigators that he wanted to kill Mosser due to his work to repair the public image of Exxon after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. Kaczynski was arrested in 1996, andmaintaining that he was sanetried and failed to dismiss his court-appointed lawyers because they wanted him to plead insanity to avoid the death penalty. [115] Forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz said Kaczynski was not psychotic but had a schizoid or schizotypal personality disorder. While the bombing devices varied widely through the years, many contained the initials "FC", which Kaczynski later said stood for "Freedom Club",[46] inscribed on parts inside. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from The University of Florida and has been a journalist for more than 25 years. With arm and chest cuts. In May 2011, the U.S. [50][59], Kaczynski's next two bombs targeted people at the University of California, Berkeley. [116] In his 2010 book Technological Slavery, Kaczynski said that two prison psychologists who visited him frequently for four years told him they saw no indication that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and the diagnosis was "ridiculous" and a "political diagnosis". Postal Inspection Service was formed. [105] He had received assurances from the FBI that he would remain anonymous and that his brother would not learn who had turned him in, but his identity was leaked to CBS News in early April 1996. [15], Throughout high school, Kaczynski was ahead of his classmates academically. According to San Francisio Examiner, Dec. 20, the 'operator' (owner? [154] Various radical movements and extremists have been influenced by Kaczynski. Mr. Kaczynski's writings became widely known after he sent The New York Times and other publications a 35,000-word tract bitterly criticizing the dehumanizing impact of technology on society. Later the same year, David Gelernter, a computer science professor at Yale, lost the use of his right hand, and suffered severe burns and shrapnel wounds but survived. But the truly disturbing aspect of Kaczynski and his ideas is not that they are so foreign but that they are so familiar." . Also in 1979, another bomb was discovered in the cargo hold of an American Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., which failed to explode but released smoke that prompted an emergency landing. [93] The UNABOMB Task Force set up a toll-free telephone hotline to take calls related to the investigation, with a $1million reward for anyone who could provide information leading to the Unabomber's capture. Perhaps some people will deny that I am motivated by a hatred for what is happening to freedom. [119] As he was fit to stand trial, prosecutors sought the death penalty, but Kaczynski avoided that by pleading guilty to all charges on January22, 1998, and accepting life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. I had everything well prepared. Authorities said it had enough power to "obliterate the plane" had it exploded. Among the links that raised suspicion was that Kaczynski lived in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1967 to 1969 (the same period that most of the Zodiac's confirmed killings occurred in California), that both individuals were highly intelligent with an interest in bombs and codes, and that both wrote letters to newspapers demanding the publication of their works with the threat of continued violence if the demand was not met. Then in December 1985, Hugh Scrutton, a computer store owner in Sacramento, California, became the first victim who was killed. [20], At Michigan, Kaczynski specialized in complex analysis, specifically geometric function theory. May about 1982 I sent a bomb to a computer expert named Patrick Fischer. [83] Kaczynski adds that the type of movement he envisions must be anti-leftist and refrain from collaboration with leftists, as, in his view, "leftism is in the long run inconsistent with wild nature, with human freedom and with the elimination of modern technology". [82], A significant portion of the document is dedicated to discussing left-wing politics, with Kaczynski attributing many of society's issues to leftists. The trial judge refused several attempts by the former professor to fire his legal team and represent himself, and Kaczynski pleaded guilty in January 1998. Damn. Subjects were told they would debate personal philosophy with a fellow student and were asked to write essays detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations. + Caption. . This is a message from FC, 553-25-4394 . [122] He remains a prolific writer of essays and books, and regularly corresponds with hundreds of people who equate his ideas to historic philosophers including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Paine and Karl Marx, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Between 1978 and 1995, the meticulous serial bomber sent dozens of untraceable packages through the U.S. mail that ultimately left three people dead and 28 injured. [95], A federal grand jury indicted Kaczynski in June 1996 on ten counts of illegally transporting, mailing, and using bombs. Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study. [132] The Labadie Collection, part of the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library, houses Kaczynski's correspondence with over 400 people since his arrest, including replies, legal documents, publications, and clippings. [98] While the FBI reviewed new leads, Kaczynski's brother David hired private investigator Susan Swanson in Chicago to investigate Ted's activities discreetly. "[33], In 1967, Kaczynski's dissertation Boundary Functions[35] won the Sumner B. Myers Prize for Michigan's best mathematics dissertation of the year. [9], From first to fourth grade (ages six to nine), Kaczynski attended Sherman Elementary School in Chicago, where administrators described him as healthy and well-adjusted. His bombs were intricate, tripwire-type devices built out of wood instead of metal pipes. The trio discussed religion and politics and formed a friendship which lasted until McVeigh's execution in 2001. Theodore Kaczynski, the man accused of being the Unabomber, kept a diary in his Montana cabin that detailed 16 bombings attributed to the terrorist, according to assistant U.S. attorney Robert. The materials Kaczynski used left no paper trail as he purchased nothing and made everything from hand with ordinary materials. After a promising start as one of the youngest mathematics professors in 1967, Kaczynski became uneasy with his academic career and resigned from Berkeley without explanation after only two years on the staff, according to reports. Kaczynski described this episode as a "major turning point" in his life:[32][33][34] "I felt disgusted about what my uncontrolled sexual cravings had almost led me to do. [54], Kaczynski left false clues in most bombs, which he intentionally made hard to find to make them appear more legitimate. Kaczynski consistently uses "we" and "our" throughout Industrial Society and Its Future. Ted Kaczynski, in full Theodore John Kaczynski, byname the Unabomber, (born May 22, 1942, Evergreen Park, Illinois, U.S.), American criminal who conducted a 17-year bombing campaign that killed 3 and wounded 23 in an attempt to bring about "a revolution against the industrial system." [65], In 1995, Kaczynski mailed several letters to media outlets outlining his goals and demanding a major newspaper print his 35,000-word essay Industrial Society and Its Future (dubbed the "Unabomber manifesto" by the FBI) verbatim. [38][39], After resigning from Berkeley, Kaczynski moved to his parents' home in Lombard, Illinois. [133][134] His writings are among the most popular selections in the University of Michigan's special collections. He also would use red herrings, such as scribbling irrelevant letters and initials on bomb parts. [53] Kaczynski's second bomb was sent nearly one year after the first one, again to Northwestern University. After witnessing the destruction of the wilderness surrounding his cabin, he concluded that living in nature was becoming impossible and resolved to fight industrialization and its destruction of nature through terrorism. The perpetrator stayed out of sight until 1987, when a witness in Salt Lake City saw a suspicious man planting one of the crude homemade devices in the parking lot of a computer store. [120][121], In 2006, Burrell ordered that items from Kaczynski's cabin be sold at a "reasonably advertised Internet auction". It was reported that the bomb that killed Gilbert Murray was a pipe bomb. [147] He was portrayed by Sharlto Copley in the 2021 film Ted K.[148][149][150], In his book The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), futurist Ray Kurzweil quoted a passage from Kaczynski's manifesto Industrial Society and Its Future. [6][107] A 2000 report by the United States Commission on the Advancement of Federal Law Enforcement stated that the task force had spent over $50million throughout the course of the investigation. Trveling expenses for raids such as the foregoing are very hard on my slender financial resources. [21] Kaczynski's brother David later stated that Ellul's book The Technological Society "became Ted's Bible". It ignited the powder. Frustrating that I cant seem to makeo lethal bomb. The Arrest. [100], In February 1996, Bisceglie gave a copy of the 1971 essay written by Ted Kaczynski to Molly Flynn at the FBI. According to the real estate website Zillow, the average home price in Lansing in January 2020 was just over $100,000. Journal of Political Ideologies, 1-19. Geneticist Phillip Sharp at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a threatening letter shortly afterwards. [7] . . This false, tho my design may have been poor due to ignorance of the technology. At one point in 1993 investigators sought an individual whose first name was "Nathan" because the name was imprinted on the envelope of a letter sent to the media. Letter to a Turkish anarchist Ted Kaczynski Jun 6, 2009 27 pp. And the attacks continued. Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, 79, was moved to the U.S. Bureau of Prison's FMC Butner medical center in eastern North Carolina on Dec. 14, according to bureau spokesperson Donald Murphy. . He had a drive to discover mathematical truth." Kaczynski goes on to say that a revolution will be possible only when industrial society is sufficiently unstable. It described the offender as a man with above-average intelligence and connections to academia. . Industrial Society and Its Future, generally known as the Unabomber Manifesto, is a 1995 anti-technology essay by Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber". 25000 dollar reward offered. F.B.I. [91] In 1979, an FBI-led task force that included 125 agents from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), and the U.S. [66] This was followed by the 1995 murder of Gilbert Brent Murray, president of the timber industry lobbying group California Forestry Association, by a mail bomb addressed to previous president William Dennison, who had retired. Joy stated Kaczynski "is clearly a Luddite, but simply saying this does not dismiss his argument". [99] David later hired Washington, D.C. attorney Tony Bisceglie to organize the evidence acquired by Swanson and contact the FBI, given the presumed difficulty of attracting the FBI's attention. . Murphy . I know for certain there was nothing 'loose' in the explosive unit itself, cause the ends of the pipe were stopped with pooddn plugs fastened with epoxy and for each plug two nails passing thru plug and both sides of pipe. Thomas Mosser, an advertising executive, was killed in an explosion at his home in North Caldwell, New Jersey in 1994. Wood received cuts and burns over most of his body. [20], For a period of several weeks in 1966, Kaczynski experienced intense sexual fantasies of being female and decided to undergo gender transition. Theodore John Kaczynski was born in Chicago on May 22, 1942, to working-class parents Wanda Theresa (ne Dombek) and Theodore Richard Kaczynski, a sausage maker. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [137], The U.S. government seized Kaczynski's cabin, which they put on display at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., until late 2019, before it was transferred to a nearby FBI museum. [50] Kaczynski sent his next bomb to the president of United Airlines, Percy Wood. He searched through old family papers and found letters dating to the 1970s that Ted had sent to newspapers to protest the abuses of technology using phrasing similar to that in the manifesto. The Littering Ape Apios Tuberosa (pseud. He used an old bicycle to get to town, and a volunteer at the local library said he visited frequently to read classic works in their original languages. He probably never felt a thing. [9][13], Kaczynski attended Evergreen Park Community High School, where he excelled academically. Toggle navigation . [9] They married on April 11, 1939. Neighbors described him as a smart but lonely individual. Apparently pipebomb went off but did not ignite gasoline. Combined with facts gleaned from the bombings and Kaczynski's life, the analysis provided the basis for an affidavit signed by Terry Turchie, the head of the entire investigation, in support of the application for a search warrant. I told you it wouldRV," and the Eugene O'Neill one-dollar stamps often used as postage on his boxes. The Long-Term Outcome of Geo-Engineering Ted Kaczynski Dec 28, 2021 5 pp. His 17-year reign of terror was finally over. By September 1968, Kaczynski was appointed assistant professor, a sign that he was on track for tenure. He arranged to meet with a psychiatrist, but changed his mind in the waiting room and did not disclose his reason for making the appointment. picked it up. Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics 14 (4), 589-612, 1965. This profile was later refined to characterize the offender as a neo-Luddite holding an academic degree in the hard sciences, but this psychologically based profile was discarded in 1983. It was also later discovered that Kaczynski wore gloves and even vacuumed the compartments of the bombs, which allowed for no traces of DNA, hairs or fibers. (2018) The Unabomber, Thoreau, and the Freedom of Nature. Theodore Kaczynski (born May 22nd 1942), widely known as The Unabomber, was also considered a suspect in the Zodiac killings due to his interest in ciphers and his penchant for engaging with authorities, media outlets and victims of his crimes in the form of letters and manifestos. I went back to the plateau and when I got there I found they had put a road right through the middle of it You just can't imagine how upset I was. Being a gifted mathematician trained at Harvard and Berkeley, Kaczynski renounced a promising scientific career and moved to a cabin in Montana, in 1971. . In all, collectors paid more than $200,000 for 58 items seized during the raid of Kaczynskis remote Montana cabin in 1996, with all proceeds going to victims and their families. that their little "Teddy" was gifted with an extremely high IQ. Their objective: to occupy tables on the basketball court and, for the parish's first time since the pandemic descended in 2020, sit down for an old-fashioned Lenten fish fry. He later tried to withdraw this plea, arguing it was involuntary as he had been coerced to plead guilty by the judge. [1] [2] Um prodgio da matemtica, [3] ele abandonou a carreira acadmica em 1969 para buscar um estilo de vida primitivo. This was the firebomb found in U. of Utah Business School outside door of room containing some computer stuff. After years of reclusive silence, he began mailing his political writings to newspapers, including a 35,000-word manifesto called Industrial Society and Its Future, which was published in The Washington Post and The New York Times. [77] Kaczynski's critiques of civilization bear some similarities to anarcho-primitivism, but he rejected and criticized anarcho-primitivist views. Afterwards, enraged, he considered killing the psychiatrist and other people whom he hated. [142] These include the 1996 television film Unabomber: The True Story,[143] the 2011 play P.O. The bomb, disguised as a piece of lumber, injured Gary Wright when he attempted to remove it from the store's parking lot. The Unabomber 14 Oct. 2010. [7][69][70] There was controversy as to whether the essay should be published, but Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh recommended its publication out of concern for public safety and in the hope that a reader could identify the author. "[86], University of MichiganDearborn philosophy professor David Skrbina helped to compile Kaczynski's work into the 2010 anthology Technological Slavery, including the original manifesto, letters between Skrbina and Kaczynski, and other essays. [74], Industrial Society and Its Future begins with Kaczynski's assertion: "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. aside from cost of materials for bomb. [91] The task force grew to more than 150 full-time personnel, but minute analysis of recovered components of the bombs and the investigation into the lives of the victims proved of little use in identifying the suspect, who built the bombs primarily from scrap materials available almost anywhere. The explosion severed nerves in Wright's left arm and propelled over 200 pieces of shrapnel into his body. Two years later came the bombing in Utah where the Unabomber was first sighted and the composite sketch made. Of course, if my crime (and my reasons for committing it) gets any public attention, it may help to stimulate public interest in the technology question and thereby improve the chances of stopping technology it is too late; but on the other hand most people will probably be repelled by my crime, and the opponents of freedom may use it as a weapon to support their arguments for control over human behavior. [14], Starting in 1975, Kaczynski performed acts of sabotage including arson and booby trapping against developments near to his cabin. [91] She forwarded the essay to the San Francisco-based task force. The experiment Ted Kaczynski participated in at Harvard involved psychological torment and humiliation. The detonator did all I designed it to do. Kaczynski was smart and patient, spreading out the time between bombings over months and sometimes years to throw off investigators. [27][28] Kaczynski stated he resented Murray and his co-workers, primarily because of the invasion of his privacy he perceived as a result of their experiments. Kaczynski killed and maimed professors, scientists and business leaders whom he felt were directly responsible for the decline of modern society through their promotion of technology and industrial development. [118], On January21, 1998, Kaczynski was declared competent to stand trial by federal prison psychiatrist Johnson, "despite the psychiatric diagnoses". Kaczynski, T. J. Ted Kaczynski, also known as the "Unabomber", is one of most notorious criminals in US history. There are several short chapters in Rachel Kushner's The Mars Roomwhich Alta Journal's California Book Club will discuss at its May 20 gatheringthat might give you pause. [75] He also criticizes conservatives, describing them as "fools who whine about the decay of traditional values, yet enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth", things he argues have led to this decay. The FBI connected all three bombing incidents and gave the suspect the moniker Unabomber because two universities and an airline had been targeted. Professor Peter Duren said of Kaczynski, "He was an unusual person. Kaczynski was one of his school's five National Merit finalists and was encouraged to apply to Harvard. manager?) He was sentenced to four life sentences at the Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado, where he remains. Box Unabomber,[144] Manhunt: Unabomber, the 2017 season of the television series Manhunt[145] and in 2021 the movie Ted K. The moniker "Unabomber" was also applied to the Italian Unabomber, a terrorist who conducted attacks similar to Kaczynski's in Italy from 1994 to 2006. Used shotgun powder in this last hoping it would do better than rifle powder x x x Revenge attempts have been gobbling much time, impeding other work. It was from that point on I decided that, rather than trying to acquire further wilderness skills, I would work on getting back at the system. Theodore John Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942, in the Chicago, Illinois, suburb of Evergreen Park. He recommended Bisceglie's client contact the FBI immediately. Theodore "Ted" Kaczynskialso known as. . [b] Kaczynski was spotted while planting the Salt Lake City bomb. Three years later, in May 1985, a University of California, Berkeley graduate student lost four fingers. [50] Kaczynski had returned to Chicago for the May 1978 bombing and stayed there for a time to work with his father and brother at a foam rubber factory. [126][130] Early in his imprisonment, Kaczynski befriended Ramzi Yousef and Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, respectively. More than six years would pass before the bomber struck again. Also Percy Wood, the president of United Airlines, who was wounded but survived one of the bombings in 1980. September 12, 1998. I do not expect to accomplish anything by it. [9] Without any explanation, Kaczynski resigned on June 30, 1969. [104], David had once admired and emulated his older brother but had since left the survivalist lifestyle behind. Per the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ted Kaczynski is an infamous figure that mailed bombs to universities and airlines over a span of 17 years. ArLuther Lee is a visual editor and occasionally covers national and world news for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, nicknamed the "Unabomber," killed and injured several people from 1978 to 1995 using mail bombs. FBI investigators knocked on Kaczynski's cabin door on April 3, 1996, findingamong other evidence40,000 handwritten journal pages describing bomb-making experiments. He was always regarded as a walking brain, so to speak. [60] In November 1985, professor James V. McConnell and research assistant Nicklaus Suino were both severely injured after Suino opened a mail bomb addressed to McConnell. In 2011, the FBI launched a probe into whether Kaczynski had been responsible for lacing several bottles of Tylenol with cyanide in 1982, another shocking whodunit from the same time period of his bombing spree. Epstein lost several fingers upon opening the package. The crime writer Robert Graysmith noted his "obsession with wood" was "a large factor" in the bombings. A new Discovery true crime series (breathlessly entitled Manhunt: Unabomber) explores how forensic linguistics provided the turning point for finally identifying the Unabomber as Theodore Kaczynski, a former mathematics prodigy and UC Berkeley professor turned neo-luddite Montana hermit. Marshals Service opened an online auction for several of the items seized in the Unabomber case. Wanda Theresa Dombek and Theodore Richard Kaczynski soon discovered. And I felt humiliated, and I violently hated the psychiatrist. . Officer Terry Marker opened the package, which exploded and caused minor injuries. [82] He states that the task of those who oppose industrial society is to promote stress within and upon the society and to propagate an anti-technology ideology, one that offers the "counter-ideal" of nature. "[31] Kaczynski received 1 F, 5 Bs and 12 As in his 18 courses at the university. [156][157], Over twenty years after Kaczynski's imprisonment, his views have inspired an online community of primitivists and neo-Luddites. "[85], Alston Chase, a fellow alumnus of Harvard University wrote in 2000 for The Atlantic that "It is true that many believed Kaczynski was insane because they needed to believe it. Ted Kaczynski argued that his 1978-1995 campaign of postal bombings was a necessary evil in order to draw attention to the harmful . Through the years, 16 bombs exploded, one after another, frustrating federal authorities who remained clueless to the mans identity and whereabouts. [111][112][113] After this request was unsuccessful, Kaczynski tried to kill himself on January9. "[84], "The Unabomber does not like socialization, technology, leftist political causes or conservative attitudes. Theodore John Kaczynski (/ k z n s k i /; Chicago, 22 de maio de 1942), tambm conhecido como Unabomber (/ j u n b m r /), um terrorista domstico, matemtico de formao, ativista ecoanarquista e escritor neoludita americano. Frustrated. [9] His teaching evaluations suggest he was not well-liked by his students: he seemed uncomfortable teaching, taught straight from the textbook and refused to answer questions. [141], Kaczynski has been portrayed in and inspired multiple artistic works in the realm of popular culture. . TJ Kaczynski. [151] In turn, Kaczynski was referenced by Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, in the 2000 Wired article "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us". Since the gun and knife murders committed by the Zodiac Killer differed from Kaczynski's bombings, authorities did not pursue him as a suspect. [90] FBI Inspector Terry D. Turchie was appointed to run the UNABOM (University and Airline Bomber) investigation. [138][139], On December 14, 2021, 79-year-old Kaczynski was transferred from the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, to the Federal Medical Center, Butner, North Carolina, for health reasons. Kaczynski was visited multiple times in Montana by his father, who was impressed by Ted's wilderness skills. . In that incident, the Unabomber had targeted an engineering professor who found the package suspicious because the box was marked with his return address but he knew that he never sent it. [46] Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks,[155] published a manifesto which copied large portions from Industrial Society and Its Future, with certain terms substituted (e.g., replacing "leftists" with "cultural Marxists" and "multiculturalists"). After testing scored his IQ at 167,[11] he skipped the sixth grade. Donald Wayne Foster analyzed the writing at the request of Kaczynski's defense team in 1996 and noted that it contained irregular spelling and hyphenation, along with other linguistic idiosyncrasies. (Jake May) Public access to most buildings at Michigan State University will be restricted at night, the school announced Wednesday, one in a series of . He always referred to himself as either "we" or "FC" ("Freedom Club"), though there is no evidence that he worked with others. [158], United States Attorney General Merrick Garland cited working on the Unabomber case as among the most important cases he worked on.[160]. According to newspaper, vice chairman of computer sci. [25][26] Chase and others have also suggested that this experience may have motivated Kaczynski's criminal activities. For 18 years, using homemade explosive devices, Ted Kaczynski terrorized those he saw. Apart from his call for an (unspecified) revolution, his paper resembles something that a very good graduate student might have written. My plan was such that there was very little chance of my getting caught. Other Lincoln residents said later that such a lifestyle was not unusual in the area.