David Kaczynski and brother Ted
(Kaczynski family photo)
Dave (left) and Ted Kaczynski in 1966 on the porch of the
family's
apartment in Lisbon, Iowa. Despite occasional strains in their
relationship, the brothers remained close into adulthood and
exchanged
copious correspondence.
Ted Kaczynski
(Kaczynski family photo)
Ted Kaczynski in the family's Iowa apartment in the late 1960s,
in his
mid-20s. By this time, he was a professor at the University of
California,
Berkeley. Shortly thereafter, he began to withdraw from society and
wander. Given the ethos of the time, brother Dave said, Ted's "dropping
out seemed like almost a heroic thing."
Theodore Kaczynski on college campus
(AP photo)
Ted Kaczynski as an assistant professor of mathematics at the
University
of California, Berkeley, in the late 1960s. At Berkeley he was
excruciatingly shy, to the point that his students scorned him. Ted
eventually shunned mathematics and technology. He later move to
Montana
and would bomb this campus twice.
Ted Kaczynski with a car
(Kaczynski family photo)
Ted Kaczynski over a car near Lincoln, Mont., in the early 1970s,
after
Ted had settled outside the small town, immersing himself in a
self-imposed survivalist retreat. He shunned electricity, poached
wild
game and grew his own vegetables.
But Ted's Montana retreat only seemed to fuel his rage and isolation.
He
railed against overhead jets interrupting his sleep, his perfect
quiet. He
began trashing nearby cabins, booby-trapping trails with neck wires
meant
to decapitate anyone speeding by on a noisy motorcycle or snowmobile.
He
also started building bombs--primitive devices, with triggers
fashioned
from match heads.
Ted Kaczynski (left) with father Theodore
(Kaczynski family photo)
Ted and his father, Turk, during a visit to Ted's Montana home in
the
early 1970s.
Ted's journal entries from this period show he was no
environmentalist,
even though the public would later perceive the Unabomber as an
eco-crusading Luddite. "I don't even believe in the cult of
nature-worshipers or wilderness-worshipers. (I am perfectly ready to
litter in parts of the woods that are of no use to me...)," he wrote.
Ted Kaczynski stands with his cabin in June, 1972
(Kaczynski family photo)
Ted Kaczynski stands outside his 10-by-12-foot cabin outside
Lincoln,
Mont., in the early 1970s. The cabin would later be disassembled and
prepared as evidence against him in federal court.
Ted Kaczynski in driveway of parents' home
(Kaczynski family photo)
Ted Kaczynski outside his parents' home in west suburban Lombard
in 1978,
the year he delivered his first bomb. The bomb never made it to its
designated addressee, an engineering professor in Troy, N.Y.,
instead
detonating when it was opened by a Northwestern University police
officer.
The bomb was weak, injuring the officer's hand.
In a journal entry from 1977, Kaczynski laid out his plans to kill.
"I
emphasize that my motivation is personal revenge. I don't pretend to
any
kind of philosophical or moralistic justification. ... My ambition
is to
kill a scientist, big businessman, government official or the like.
I
would also like to kill a Communist."
Ted Kaczynski with mother, Wanda, 1978
(Kaczynski family photo)
Ted Kaczynski and his mother, Wanda, in Lombard in 1978, the year
Ted
delivered his first bomb. After Dave fired Ted from his factory job
for
harassing a female supervisor, Dave resigned and traveled to a
remote part
of Texas that would become his sanctuary. The brothers later would
reconcile.
Ted Kaczynski at parents' home in Lombard, Ill., 1978
(Kaczynski family photo)
Ted Kaczynski at his parents' Lombard home in 1978. He returned
to Lombard
partly, he later wrote, to blend into the population so he could
more
easily carry out a bombing.
Ted Kaczynski at parents' home
(Kaczynski family photo)
Ted Kaczynski in Lombard, 1978. That summer he started working at
a
foam-cutting factory where his father and brother also worked.
Brother
Dave, a part-time supervisor at the factory, was forced to fire Ted
after
he posted insulting limericks about a woman he dated--a female
supervisor--around the factory.
Ted Kaczynski, left, brother David, far right, and David's
friends
(Kaczynski family photo)
Ted (left) and his brother (far right) with some of Dave's
friends at the
Kaczynski family's home in Lombard in 1978.
Ted Kaczynski in Montana circa early 1970s
(Kaczynski family photo)
During his stay in Lincoln, Mont., in the early 1970s, Ted
Kaczynski
shunned electricity, poached wild game and grew his own vegetables.
But
the Montana retreat only seemed to fuel his isolation and bizarre
behavior.
Ted Kaczynski in Montana, 1981
(Kaczynski family photo)
Ted Kaczynski in Montana in 1981. By this time he had sent
several bombs,
including one that created smoke but did not detonate aboard an
airliner
in 1979. The FBI got involved and later coined the code name UNABOM
or
Unabomber to refer to the man they would not catch until 1996, with
the
help of his brother.
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