Theodore John Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist and former mathematics professor.
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30 Facts About Unabomber
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Unabomber was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career to pursue a primitive life.
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Unabomber witnessed the destruction of the wilderness surrounding his cabin and concluded that living in nature was becoming impossible.
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Unabomber resolved to fight industrialization and its destruction of nature through terrorism.
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Unabomber issued a social critique rejecting leftism, opposing industrialization, and advocating a nature-centered form of anarchism.
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Unabomber said he showed sympathy for animals who were in cages or otherwise helpless, which she speculated stemmed from his experience in hospital isolation.
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Unabomber's mother recalled Ted as a shy child who would become unresponsive if pressured into a social situation.
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Unabomber decided against it after seeing Bettelheim's abrupt and cold manner.
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Unabomber was always regarded as a walking brain, so to speak.
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Unabomber became associated with a group of like-minded boys interested in science and mathematics, known as the "briefcase boys" for their penchant for carrying briefcases.
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Unabomber skipped the eleventh grade, and by attending summer school he graduated at age 15.
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Unabomber arranged to meet with a psychiatrist, but changed his mind in the waiting room and did not disclose his reason for making the appointment.
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Unabomber's 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.
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Unabomber 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.
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Unabomber dedicated himself to reading about sociology and political philosophy, including the works of Jacques Ellul.
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Unabomber purposely left misleading clues in the devices and took extreme care in preparing them to avoid leaving fingerprints; fingerprints found on some of the devices did not match those found on letters attributed to Kaczynski.
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Unabomber sent one bomb embedded in a copy of Sloan Wilson's novel Ice Brothers.
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Unabomber often included bits of a tree branch and bark in his bombs; his selected targets included Percy Wood and Professor Leroy Wood.
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Unabomber stated he would "desist from terrorism" if this demand was met.
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Unabomber always referred to himself as either "we" or "FC", though there is no evidence that he worked with others.
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Unabomber predicts that further technological advances will lead to extensive human genetic engineering, and that human beings will be adjusted to meet the needs of social systems, rather than vice versa.
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Unabomber defines leftists as "mainly socialists, collectivists, 'politically correct' types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like".
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Unabomber believes that over-socialization and feelings of inferiority are primary drivers of leftism, and derides it as "one of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world".
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Unabomber advocates practicing other types of protest and makes no mention of violence.
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Unabomber 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.
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Unabomber forwarded the essay to the San Francisco-based task force.
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Early hunt for the Unabomber portrayed a perpetrator far different from the eventual suspect.
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Unabomber later tried to withdraw this plea, arguing it was involuntary as he had been coerced to plead guilty by the judge.
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Unabomber's writings are among the most popular selections in the University of Michigan's special collections.
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