The Unabomber

THE UNABOMBER

Graduated from Harvard, professor of mathematics, Ted Kaczynski had everything for him. But his hate for the technology and the industrial society transformed him in one of the most fascinating terrorist of the history.

Kaczynski born in Chicago in 1942. He was a brilliant mathematician but he suffered from persistent social and emotional problems. Ted was chosen to participate for an experience imagined by one of Harvard's professor of psychology, Henry Murray with 22 others. These torture sessions, put these talented young men, infront of situation of important stress, filmed, humbled. This experience scared him for life.

Disillusioned with the world around him, Kaczynski lived as a hermit for 25 years, without water or electricity. He developed a philosophy of radical environmentalism and militant opposition to modern technology, and tried to get academic essays on the subjects published. It was the rejection of one of his papers by two Universities in 1978 that may have prompted him to manufacture and deliver his first mail bomb to the university of Illinois.

As Kaczynski seemed to be targeting universities and Airlines, the FBI began calling their suspect the Unabomber, for University Airline and Bomber. 16 mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 during this 28-year period in the Technological Institute, on American Airlines flight, at universities, at a professor's home, at the computer store in Sacramento...

Ted Kaczynski sent a manifesto to the New York Times and The Washington Post, saying he would stop the Killing if it was published. In 1995, The Washington Post published the "Unabomber's Manifesto", a thesis based on what Kaczynski perceived to be the problems with America's industrial and technological society. David, his brother, read this essay and recognized his brother's ideas and language. He informed the FBI and on April, Ted Kaczynski was arrested at his cabin in Montana. A live bomb and an original copy of the manifesto was discovered. He was sentenced 8 times in perpetuity and he still writes in his cell.