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{{Quote|Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness.|Ted Kaczynski}}

'''Theodore John Kaczynski''' (May 22, 1942), also known as '''the Unabomber''' , is an American domestic terrorist, anarcho-primitivist author, and former mathematics professor. He was a mathematics prodigy, but he abandoned an academic career in 1969 to pursue a primitive lifestyle. Between 1978 and 1995, he killed three people and injured 23 others in an attempt to start a revolution by conducting a nationwide bombing campaign targeting people involved with modern technology. In conjunction with this effort, he issued a social critique opposing industrialization while advocating a nature-centered form of anarchism.

==Biography==

== Biography ==

Theodore John Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, to working-class, second-generation Polish Americans, Wanda Theresa (née Dombek) and Theodore Richard Kaczynski, a sausage maker. His parents told his younger brother, David Kaczynski, that Ted had been a happy baby until severe hives forced him into hospital isolation with limited contact with others, after which he "showed little emotion for months". Wanda recalled Ted recoiling from a picture of himself as an infant being held down by physicians examining his hives. She said he showed sympathy to animals who were in cages or otherwise helpless, which she speculated stemmed from his experience in hospital isolation.

[[File:Young Ted Kaczynski.jpg|left|thumb|264x264px|Theodore John Kaczynski when he was still a young math teacher.]]

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FBI agents arrested Kaczynski on April 3, 1996, at his cabin, where he was found in an unkempt state. A search of his cabin revealed a cache of bomb components, 40,000 hand-written journal pages that included bomb-making experiments, descriptions of the Unabomber crimes and one live bomb, ready for mailing. They also found what appeared to be the original typed manuscript of ''Industrial Society and Its Future''. By this point, the Unabomber had been the target of the most expensive investigation in FBI history.

After his arrest, Kaczynski tried unsuccessfully to dismiss his court-appointed lawyers because they wanted him to plead insanity in order to avoid the death penalty, as he did not believe that he was insane. In 1998, a plea bargain was reached under which he pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced to eight life sentences without the possibility of parole. He has been imprisoned at ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. In December 2021, the 79 year old Kaczynski was transferred to the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina.

==Trivia==

*He was once suspected of being the [[Zodiac Killer]].

== Trivia ==

*In 2016, it was reported that early on in his imprisonment Kaczynski had befriended [[Ramzi Yousef]] and [[Timothy McVeigh]], the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and [[the Oklahoma City Bombing]], respectively. The trio discussed religion and politics and formed a friendship which lasted until McVeigh's execution in 2001.

* He was once suspected of being the [[Zodiac Killer]].

*He admitted to destroying a neighbor's cabin with an ax and to defecating in their tub. He said that he did this because he didn't like the way that they rode their motorcycles through the woods.

* In 2016, it was reported that early on in his imprisonment Kaczynski had befriended [[Ramzi Yousef]] and [[Timothy McVeigh]], the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and [[the Oklahoma City Bombing]], respectively. The trio discussed religion and politics and formed a friendship which lasted until McVeigh's execution in 2001.

*Ted Kaczynski was in a relationship with a women that was a co-worker that worked at the Cushion-Pak, an Illinois rubber foam factory, that was under the control of Ted's brother, David. Ted and the woman had a few dates in 1978 and he had his first kiss at age 36, she told to her legal analyst Lis Wiehl in the author's book "Hunting The Unabomber." After, she rejected him and Ted was very upset about this. So, he started to harass her by posting limericks on the work site. David tried to make him stop telling him that if he didn't stop he would fire him. Ted continued to harass her and shortly after he was fired.

* He admitted to destroying a neighbor's cabin with an ax and to defecating in their tub. He said that he did this because he didn't like the way that they rode their motorcycles through the woods.

* Ted Kaczynski was in a relationship with a women that was a co-worker that worked at the Cushion-Pak, an Illinois rubber foam factory, that was under the control of Ted's brother, David. Ted and the woman had a few dates in 1978 and he had his first kiss at age 36, she told to her legal analyst Lis Wiehl in the author's book "Hunting The Unabomber." After, she rejected him and Ted was very upset about this. So, he started to harass her by posting limericks on the work site. David tried to make him stop telling him that if he didn't stop he would fire him. Ted continued to harass her and shortly after he was fired.

[[Category:Important]]

[[Category:Tragic]]

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 {{Quote|Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness.|Ted Kaczynski}}
 '''Theodore John Kaczynski''' (May 22, 1942), also known as '''the Unabomber''' , is an American domestic terrorist, anarcho-primitivist author, and former mathematics professor. He was a mathematics prodigy, but he abandoned an academic career in 1969 to pursue a primitive lifestyle. Between 1978 and 1995, he killed three people and injured 23 others in an attempt to start a revolution by conducting a nationwide bombing campaign targeting people involved with modern technology. In conjunction with this effort, he issued a social critique opposing industrialization while advocating a nature-centered form of anarchism.
-==Biography==
+== Biography ==
 Theodore John Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, to working-class, second-generation Polish Americans, Wanda Theresa (née Dombek) and Theodore Richard Kaczynski, a sausage maker. His parents told his younger brother, David Kaczynski, that Ted had been a happy baby until severe hives forced him into hospital isolation with limited contact with others, after which he "showed little emotion for months". Wanda recalled Ted recoiling from a picture of himself as an infant being held down by physicians examining his hives. She said he showed sympathy to animals who were in cages or otherwise helpless, which she speculated stemmed from his experience in hospital isolation.
 [[File:Young Ted Kaczynski.jpg|left|thumb|264x264px|Theodore John Kaczynski when he was still a young math teacher.]]
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 FBI agents arrested Kaczynski on April 3, 1996, at his cabin, where he was found in an unkempt state. A search of his cabin revealed a cache of bomb components, 40,000 hand-written journal pages that included bomb-making experiments, descriptions of the Unabomber crimes and one live bomb, ready for mailing. They also found what appeared to be the original typed manuscript of ''Industrial Society and Its Future''. By this point, the Unabomber had been the target of the most expensive investigation in FBI history.
 After his arrest, Kaczynski tried unsuccessfully to dismiss his court-appointed lawyers because they wanted him to plead insanity in order to avoid the death penalty, as he did not believe that he was insane. In 1998, a plea bargain was reached under which he pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced to eight life sentences without the possibility of parole. He has been imprisoned at ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. In December 2021, the 79 year old Kaczynski was transferred to the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina.
-==Trivia==
-*He was once suspected of being the [[Zodiac Killer]].
+== Trivia ==
-*In 2016, it was reported that early on in his imprisonment Kaczynski had befriended [[Ramzi Yousef]] and [[Timothy McVeigh]], the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and [[the Oklahoma City Bombing]], respectively. The trio discussed religion and politics and formed a friendship which lasted until McVeigh's execution in 2001.
+* He was once suspected of being the [[Zodiac Killer]].
-*He admitted to destroying a neighbor's cabin with an ax and to defecating in their tub. He said that he did this because he didn't like the way that they rode their motorcycles through the woods.
+* In 2016, it was reported that early on in his imprisonment Kaczynski had befriended [[Ramzi Yousef]] and [[Timothy McVeigh]], the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and [[the Oklahoma City Bombing]], respectively. The trio discussed religion and politics and formed a friendship which lasted until McVeigh's execution in 2001.
-*Ted Kaczynski was in a relationship with a women that was a co-worker that worked at the Cushion-Pak, an Illinois rubber foam factory, that was under the control of Ted's brother, David.  Ted and the woman had a few dates in 1978 and he had his first kiss at age 36, she told to her legal analyst Lis Wiehl in the author's book "Hunting The Unabomber." After, she rejected him and Ted was very upset about this. So, he started to harass her by posting limericks on the work site. David tried to make him stop telling him that if he didn't stop he would fire him. Ted continued to harass her and shortly after he was fired.
+* He admitted to destroying a neighbor's cabin with an ax and to defecating in their tub. He said that he did this because he didn't like the way that they rode their motorcycles through the woods.
+* Ted Kaczynski was in a relationship with a women that was a co-worker that worked at the Cushion-Pak, an Illinois rubber foam factory, that was under the control of Ted's brother, David.  Ted and the woman had a few dates in 1978 and he had his first kiss at age 36, she told to her legal analyst Lis Wiehl in the author's book "Hunting The Unabomber." After, she rejected him and Ted was very upset about this. So, he started to harass her by posting limericks on the work site. David tried to make him stop telling him that if he didn't stop he would fire him. Ted continued to harass her and shortly after he was fired.
 [[Category:Important]]
 [[Category:Tragic]]