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The moniker "Unabomber" was also applied to the Italian Unabomber, a terrorist who conducted attacks similar to Kaczynski's in Italy from 1994 to 2006. [166] Prior to the 1996 United States presidential election , a campaign called " Unabomber for President " was launched with the goal of electing Kaczynski as president through write-in votes.
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.
The incident, along with other bombs that had been placed in packages, would lead to the FBI's search, for more than 16 years, for the identity of a suspect identified initially as "The Unabomber" and later found to be Ted Kaczynski, a former mathematics professor at the University of California in Berkeley. [54]
But in 1996, after 18 years of a frightening, slow-motion rampage that killed three people and injured 23 more, Kaczynski was finally arrested — betrayed not by his bombs but by his own words.
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 ...
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 ...
Fitzgerald's career in law enforcement began in 1976 as a police officer in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania.In 1987, after eleven years of local police work culminating in his promotion to the rank of sergeant, he was recruited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
After The Washington Post printed "The Unabomber Manifesto" in 1995, David Kaczynski realized his sibling could be one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives and worked with the agency in his capture.