Ted Kaczynski

Ted Kaczynski

Birth : 1942-05-22, Chicago, Illinois, USA

History

Theodore John Kaczynski (born: May 22, 1942), better known as the Unabomber, is a American domestic terrorist and former mathematics professor. From 1978 to 1995 he killed 3 people and injured 29 others in a nationwide series of bombings. He was apprehended on April 3rd, 1996.

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Ted Kaczynski

Movies

Stemple Pass
Writer
Four landscape shots containing a replica of Ted Kaczynski’s cabin, one shot per season. On the soundtrack, Benning reads extracts from Kaczynski’s journals from the early 1970s, recording his progress at hunting and gathering, and his connection to the Montana wilderness; a hand-written folded sheet of paper detailing his acts of “monkey wrenching” and first attempts at planting bombs; two notebooks written in numerical code in 1985 and decoded by Benning in 2011; two excepts from Industrial Society and Its Future by "FC" (aka the Unabomber Manifesto) as published in The New York Times and The Washington Post in 1995; and a 2001 interview with Kaczynski by J. Alienus Rychalski, special correspondent for the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch.
Unabomber: The Secret History
Himself (archive footage)
An overview on the actions, hunt and capture of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber.
The Net
Himself (archive footage)
More of a film essay - of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker - than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck's The Net: The Unabomber, the LSD and the Internet begins with the typical format and structure of a nonfiction film, and a single subject (the life and times of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski). From that thematic springboard, Dammbeck branches out omnidirectionally, segueing into a series of thematic riffs and variants on such marginally-related subjects as: the history of cyberspace, terrorism, utopian ideals, LSD, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.