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American Airlines Flight 444 was a scheduled American Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C.'s National Airport.On November 15, 1979, the Boeing 727 serving the flight was attacked by Ted Kaczynski (also known as the Unabomber), who sent a pipe bomb in the mail and set it to detonate at a certain altitude.
In the same weekend, Kaczynski mailed a bomb to David Gelernter, a computer science professor at Yale University. Gelernter lost sight in one eye, hearing in one ear, and a portion of his right hand. [67] In 1994, Burson-Marsteller executive Thomas J. Mosser was killed after opening a mail bomb sent to his home in New Jersey.
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 ...
Percy Addison Wood Jr. (June 7, 1920 – June 23, 2008) [1] was a United Airlines executive who was notably injured by a bomb sent from Ted Kaczynski.Wood was injured June 10, 1980, in the fourth explosion attributed to the Unabomber, and suffered burns and cuts over much of his body when he opened a package left in the mailbox of his Lake Forest, Illinois, home.
Later in 1979, Kaczynski placed a bomb on an American Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C. It failed to explode but thick smoke forced an emergency landing. Twelve of those aboard were ...
Ted Kaczynski cups a hand to his ear during an interview in a visiting room at ADX, a federal prison in Florence, Colo., Aug. 30, 1999. ... Kaczynski sent mail bombs around the country that killed ...
Ted Kaczynski, former math professor and "twisted genius" who came to be known as the Unabomber when he carried out a 17-year spree of mysterious bombings that killed three people and baffled the ...
The 35,000-word manifesto formed the ideological foundation of Kaczynski's 1978–1995 mail bomb campaign, designed to protect wilderness by hastening the collapse of industrial society. 35,000 words (~100 pages) [10] [11] Communication From the Dead: Robert Flores English 28 October 2002