Theodore John Kaczynski (Chicago, May 22, 1942 - Durham, North Carolina, June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a primitive lifestyle.
Kaczynski was born and raised in Evergreen Park, Illinois. While growing up in Evergreen Park he was a child prodigy, excelling academically from an early age. Kaczynski was accepted into Harvard University at the age of 16, where he earned an undergraduate degree. He subsequently earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967 at age 25. He resigned two years later.
As a Harvard undergraduate, Kaczynski was among twenty-two students who were research subjects in ethically questionable experiments conducted by psychology professor Henry Murray from late 1959 to early 1962.
In 1971, he moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water in Lincoln, Montana, where he lived as a recluse while learning survival skills in an attempt to become self-sufficient.
Seventeen years after beginning his mail bomb campaign, Kaczynski sent a letter to The New York Times on April 24, 1995 and promised "to desist from terrorism" if the Times or The Washington Post published his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future
(the "Unabomber Manifesto"), in which he argued that his bombings were
extreme but necessary to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization.
The Unabomber was the target of one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's
costliest investigations. Before Kaczynski's identity was known, the
FBI used the title "UNABOM" (UNiversity & Airline BOMber) to refer
to his case, which resulted in the media calling him the Unabomber. The
FBI (as well as Attorney General Janet Reno)
pushed for the publication of Kaczynski's "Manifesto", which led to his
sister-in-law, and then his brother, recognizing Kaczynski's style of
writing and beliefs from the manifesto, and tipping off the FBI. Kaczynski tried unsuccessfully to dismiss his court-appointed lawyers because they wanted to plead insanity
in order to avoid the death penalty, as Kaczynski did not believe he
was insane. When it became clear that his pending trial would entail
national television exposure for Kaczynski, the court entered a plea agreement, under which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. He has been designated a "domestic terrorist" by the FBI. Some anarcho-primitivist authors, such as John Zerzan and John Moore, have come to his defense, while also holding some reservations about his actions and ideas.
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After his arrest in 1996, Kaczynski - maintaining that he was sane - tried and failed to dismiss his court-appointed lawyers because they wished him to plead insanity to avoid the death penalty.
He pleaded guilty to all charges in 1998 and was sentenced to eight
consecutive life terms in prison without the possibility of parole. In
June 2023, Kaczynski died by suicide in prison.
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