CO CO - TED KACZYNSKI, The Unabomber 1980's-'90's

[sds71]

Luke Barr

@LukeLBarr


NEW: Ted Kaczynski known as the Unabomber died in his prison cell this morning, according to a BOP spokesperson.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski found dead in his prison cell

Kaczynski was arrested in 1996 for a series of bombings that targeted scientists and killed three people.

www.nbcnews.com

Ted Kaczynski, the man known as the “Unabomber,” who was serving life without the possibility of parole for a series of bombing across the U.S., was found dead in his North Carolina prison cell on Saturday, a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson told The Associated Press. He was 81.

Kaczynski, who was convicted for a series of bombings targeting scientists, was being held in North Carolina after being transferred in 2021 from a maximum security Colorado prison due to his declining health.

A cause of death was not released.

Kaczynski was serving time following his 1996 arrest at the primitive cabin where he was living in western Montana. He pleaded guilty to setting 16 explosions that killed three people and injured 23 others in various parts of the country between 1978 and 1995...

 

[arielilane]

6/10/2023

WASHINGTON — Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81.

Branded the "Unabomber" by the FBI, Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8 a.m., she said. A cause of death was not immediately known.

Before his transfer to the prison medical facility, he had been held in the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge. He admitted committing 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his victims.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/10/1181516760/ted-kaczynski-unabomber-dies

 

[fred&edna]

He was a genius... it's just horrible and sad that he hurt, harmed, and killed.

 

[Richard]

Ted Kaczynski, also known as "The Unabomber"

LINK:

Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison

Theodore “Ted" Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press on Saturday. Kaczynski was found dead around 8 a.m. at a federal prison in North Carolina.

www.aol.com

 

[airportwoman]

Some of you will disagree, but I hope he's resting in peace, because he had no peace here on earth. Many of his victims, or their family members, have said that they lived with anger and bitterness until they found out what kind of person did this. One of the tragedies accompanying this is that he had so much potential that he could not use.

 

[RANCH]

One of his victims was Gilbert Murray in Sacramento. The bombing was near where I worked. I remember driving by the bombing site on I street and seeing the crime scene tape.

Forestry lobbyist dies in explosion

 

[sds71]

Theodore J. Kaczynski, the “Unabomber,” who killed three people and injured 23 in a bombing spree stretching from 1978 to 1995, died by suicide at a federal prison medical center in North Carolina early Saturday, according to three people familiar with the situation.

Emergency workers were called to Mr. Kaczynski’s cell at 12:23 a.m. at the Federal Medical Center, Butner, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Attempts to revive him in the prison and in an ambulance were unsuccessful, and he was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, officials said. He was 81.

Kaczynski Died by Suicide in Prison, Sources Say

The man known as the “Unabomber” had been transferred to a federal prison medical center in 2021 after more than 25 years at a maximum security facility.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Cubby]

Many of his victims, or their family members, have said that they lived with anger and bitterness until they found out what kind of person did this.

RSBM. Do you have a source for your statement?

 

[airportwoman]

What does RSBM mean?

 

[RANCH]

What does RSBM mean?

It means Cubby only quoted part of your post to make it clear what the question is about.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

FILE - Former University of California at Berkley math professor Theodore John Kaczynski is escorted into the federal courthouse in Helena, Mont., on April 4, 1996. Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told The Associated

Before his transfer to the medical facility, he had been held in the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colo., since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge. He admitted committing 16 bombings from 1978 to 1995.

Years before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the anthrax mailing, the Unabomber's deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes, even virtually shutting down air travel on the West Coast in July 1995.

He forced The Washington Post, in conjunction with The New York Times, to make the agonizing decision in September 1995 to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, "Industrial Society and Its Future," which claimed modern society and technology were leading to a sense of powerlessness and alienation…

‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski dies at 81

WASHINGTON -- Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23, died Saturday. He was 81.

www.arkansasonline.com

 

[IDK]

I found this information fascinating. I didn’t realize TK participated in a controversial mind control experiment as a volunteer while a student at Harvard. When I was a college student for my psychology classes it was mandatory to volunteer for various experiments ( thank goodness the ones I participated in were harmless):



“Kaczynski entered Harvard University as a 16-year-old on a scholarship, after skipping the sixth and 11th grades. It was there that he was subjected to an experiment run by Harvard psychologist Henry A. Murray that was backed by the Central Intelligence Agency. Though he graduated with a mathematics degree, later completing a doctorate in the field before becoming a professor, questions remain over whether — or to what extent — he was affected by the experiment, which reportedly involved mock interrogations in which participants’ beliefs were harshly disparaged.
Murray’s study was widely reported to be part of a CIA program code-named Project MK-Ultra, inspired by the use of mind-control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea by the Soviet Union, China and North Korea. The program sought to understand how to control subjects’ minds, sometimes using substances such as LSD, according to a document the CIA made publicly available in 2018. (There has not been evidence to suggest LSD or similar substances were used at Harvard on Kaczynski.)”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/06/11/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-harvard-experiment/

 

[arielilane]

The Unabomber's brother said in an interview that the convicted terrorist's death has brought his family "closure."

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667787609647751174

'Close the chapter': Son of Unabomber victim feels 'closure' after convicted terrorist's death

Novato resident Jonathan Epstein says the death of Ted Kaczynski means closure for his family.

abc7.com

Sunday, June 11, 2023 2:46AM

NOVATO, Calif. -- Ted Kaczynski, the convicted terrorist known as the Unabomber has died in Federal prison, he was 81.

For almost two decades, the Unabomber terrorized Northern California and the country by sending more than a dozen bombs through the mail to University professors and Airline execs.

Three people were killed and dozens of others were injured.

Novato resident Jonathan Epstein says the death of Ted Kaczynski means closure for his family.

 

[arielilane]

I found this information fascinating. I didn’t realize TK participated in a controversial mind control experiment as a volunteer while a student at Harvard. When I was a college student for my psychology classes it was mandatory to volunteer for various experiments ( thank goodness the ones I participated in were harmless):



“Kaczynski entered Harvard University as a 16-year-old on a scholarship, after skipping the sixth and 11th grades. It was there that he was subjected to an experiment run by Harvard psychologist Henry A. Murray that was backed by the Central Intelligence Agency. Though he graduated with a mathematics degree, later completing a doctorate in the field before becoming a professor, questions remain over whether — or to what extent — he was affected by the experiment, which reportedly involved mock interrogations in which participants’ beliefs were harshly disparaged.
Murray’s study was widely reported to be part of a CIA program code-named Project MK-Ultra, inspired by the use of mind-control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea by the Soviet Union, China and North Korea. The program sought to understand how to control subjects’ minds, sometimes using substances such as LSD, according to a document the CIA made publicly available in 2018. (There has not been evidence to suggest LSD or similar substances were used at Harvard on Kaczynski.)”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/06/11/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-harvard-experiment/

Thank you @IDK for posting this valuable info. TK should never have been given this "experiment" imo.

Does/Did society not know how to handle brilliant young minds? Another student at Michigan State University comes to mind but don't recall his name. I read a book written from an investigator about the student years ago.

In addition, I'm not defending TK's crimes. All a matter of opinion.

 

[Cubby]

I found this information fascinating. I didn’t realize TK participated in a controversial mind control experiment as a volunteer while a student at Harvard. When I was a college student for my psychology classes it was mandatory to volunteer for various experiments ( thank goodness the ones I participated in were harmless):



“Kaczynski entered Harvard University as a 16-year-old on a scholarship, after skipping the sixth and 11th grades. It was there that he was subjected to an experiment run by Harvard psychologist Henry A. Murray that was backed by the Central Intelligence Agency. Though he graduated with a mathematics degree, later completing a doctorate in the field before becoming a professor, questions remain over whether — or to what extent — he was affected by the experiment, which reportedly involved mock interrogations in which participants’ beliefs were harshly disparaged.
Murray’s study was widely reported to be part of a CIA program code-named Project MK-Ultra, inspired by the use of mind-control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea by the Soviet Union, China and North Korea. The program sought to understand how to control subjects’ minds, sometimes using substances such as LSD, according to a document the CIA made publicly available in 2018. (There has not been evidence to suggest LSD or similar substances were used at Harvard on Kaczynski.)”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/06/11/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-harvard-experiment/

Thank you for posting this. I had no idea..... His background certainly puts a different perspective on things.

 

[Richard]

It should be remembered that the FBI could not find the Unabomber for almost 2 decades yet strongly urged both the New York Times and Washington Post to NOT publish the then unknown perpetrator's "manifesto".

When the papers did finally publish it, it provided the break needed to solve the case. Ted Kaczynski's brother David recognized the writings and sentiment and style as that of Ted, HE solved the case and contacted the FBI. He told them that he did not want any reward and that his only request was that Ted be captured without injury and that the FBI NOT REVEAL THE SOURCE of the information.

In true FBI style, they made the arrest with much Hoo Rah and high fiving, and then immediately broke their promise to David and revealed to the press and the world where they got their information.

So much for their promises to informants and their commitment to protecting sources.

 

[GoBuckeyes]

RSBM. Do you have a source for your statement?

There's a very good recent documentary that covers this in detail. I believe you can find it on Netflix.

 

[SeesSeas]

Former Schenectady residents David Kaczynski, Linda Patrik played crucial role in Unabomber's capture

It was one of the most troubling criminal mysteries of the late 20th century.For two decades, a stealthy outlaw instilled fear in the American psyche by committing a series of bombings that terrorized communities and bewildered law enforcement.Federal agents on the case would eventually brand the un

dailygazette.com

June 10, 2023
[...]
“I used a lot of Buddhist ethical arguments to convince David to take seriously the possibility that Ted was the Unabomber,” Patrik recalled in a 2013 interview with The Daily Gazette.
[...]
In February 1996, Kaczynski tipped off the FBI to his brother’s previous writings, which he’d found while packing to move his mother, Wanda, for a move from a Chicago suburb to an apartment in Glenville.
[...]
In October 1996, David Kaczynski departed his job as assistant director of the Equinox youth shelter in Albany to devote more time to keeping his brother off death row.
[...]
Their Buddhist precepts were extremely informative in the couple’s advocacy against the death penalty.
“In Buddhism, a very important ethical precept is non-harming,” David Kaczynski told the Gazette in 2013. “We try to minimize harm, which meant preventing my brother’s violence, and then the possibility of violence against him. We didn’t want to release violence against a loved one.”
[...]

 

[arielilane]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm

Editor's Note: This is the text of a 35,000-word manifesto as submitted to The Washington Post and the New York Times by the serial mail bomber called the Unabomber. The manifesto appeared in The Washington Post as an eight-page supplement that was not part of the news sections. This document contains corrections that appeared in the Friday, Sept. 22, 1995 editions of Washington Post. The text was sent in June, 1995 to The New York Times and The Washington Post by the person who calls himself “FC,” identified by the FBI as the Unabomber, whom authorities have implicated in three murders and 16 bombings. The author threatened to send a bomb to an unspecified destination “with intent to kill” unless one of the newspapers published this manuscript. The Attorney General and the Director of the FBI recommended publication.

INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE​

Introduction

1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.