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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.
Ted Kaczynski, a Harvard-educated mathematician, railed against technology in his writings and planted homemade pipe bombs — targeting universities, an American Airlines flight and others ...
From the 1970s to the 1990s, Kaczynski sent mail bombs around the country that killed three people and injured 23 others, targeting those he believed had pro-technology stances that threatened 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. The manifesto states that the public largely accepts individual technological advancements as purely positive without accounting for their overall effect ...
Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, the man known as the "Unabomber" for a series of bombings targeting scientists, was found dead in his prison cell Saturday morning, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau ...
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.
"Ted K" review: Sharlto Copley offers an intense portrayal of the "Unabomber" as director Tony Stone brings a deft documentarian's touch to the biopic.