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Ted Kaczynski
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Ted Kaczynski

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Also known as Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski, University and airline bomber, Theodore Kaczynski, The Unabomber, T. J. Kaczynski, Unabomber

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

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Theodore Kaczynski, also known as John Kaczynski, was an American mathematician, writer, philosopher, and environmentalist. Born on May 22, 1942, he was educated at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He served as a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, under doctoral advisor Allen Lowell Shields. Kaczynski held political views aligned with green anarchism and identified as an atheist of Polish American ethnicity.

He authored twelve works, including *Industrial Society and Its Future*, *Manifeste*, *Die industrielle Gesellschaft und ihre Zukunft*, and *Sociedad Industrial y Su Futuro*. Kaczynski was convicted of murder and spent time in detention at the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADMAX. His legal counsel was Judy Clarke. He resided in Evergreen Park, Lombard, Lincoln, and Chicago. Kaczynski died on June 10, 2023.

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Born
22 May 1942
Died
10 June 2023
Works
12

Top works

  • Manifeste
  • Die industrielle Gesellschaft und ihre Zukunft
  • Industrial Society and Its Future
  • Sociedad Industrial y Su Futuro
  • Technologische Sklaverei

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Chicago, Illinois, USA

Theodore John Kaczynski (May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. He was a mathematics prodigy but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a more primitive life. Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski killed three people and injured 23 others in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing…

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  • Unabomber: In His Own Words — Self - The Unabomber (archive footage)2020
  • Aftermath with William Shatner — Self (archive footage)2010
  • Unabomber: The Secret History — Self (archive footage)2008
  • The Net_GO TO TRIAL — Self (archive footage)2004
  • The Net — Self (archive footage)2003

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Instance of
human
Given name
John
Family name
Kaczynski
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Chicago
Place of death
Duke University Hospital
Sibling
David Kaczynski
Educated at
University of Michigan
Employer
University of California, Berkeley
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Religion
atheism
Doctoral advisor
Allen Lowell Shields
Field of work
anarchism
Movement
neo-Luddism
Image
Ted Kaczynski 2 (cropped).jpg
Height
175
Residence
Chicago
Convicted of
murder
Political ideology
green anarchism
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Ted Kaczynski
date of birth
1942-05-22
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Theodore Kaczynski
nickname
Unabomber
name in native language
Theodore Kaczynski
legal counsel
Judy Clarke
ethnic group
Polish Americans
birth name
Theodore John Kaczynski
writing language
English language
influenced by
Jacques Ellul
Commons Creator page
Theodore Kaczynski
date of death
2023-06-10
lifestyle
simple living
code name
UNABOM
uses
letter bomb
penalty
life imprisonment
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
manner of death
Suicide
present in work
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Theodore John Kaczynski (/kəˈzɪnski/ kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber (/ˈjuːnəbɒmər/ YOO-nə-bom-ər), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

Kaczynski murdered 3 people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995 in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the natural environment. He authored a roughly 35,000-word manifesto and social critique, Industrial Society and Its Future (1995), which opposes all forms of technology, rejects leftism, advocates cultural primitivism, and ultimately suggests violent revolution.

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