Was the unabomber born at harvard

[Allison Hunt]

"It is also written in a very unclear and confused fashion".

I totally agree. That's why I'm asking other members if they believe any of these claims have merit and to possibly shed light on the confusing parts.

To me, the letter bombs seem a little out of character. His manifesto is a principled document. The people he targeted were small cogs in a humoungous machine. So, why? If he was whacking CEO's of Disney, Dupont and Monsanto... well, now you're talking.:lol:

[Magda Hassan]

Unabomber sends update to Harvard reunion

Updated May 25, 2012 09:09:35


The 50th reunion for Harvard University's undergraduate class of 1962 took a strange turn when Ted Kaczynski, the year's most infamous graduate, sent in a status update that was published in the alumni book.Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, was convicted in 1998 of killing three people and injuring 23 others in a mail bombing campaign against modern technology that was waged for almost two decades.He is jailed for life in the maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, and thus unable to join hundreds of former Harvard and Radcliffe classmates for four days of events in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that wrap up on Thursday (local time).In the alumni guide, Kaczynski, 70, listed his occupation as "prisoner".Under awards, he notes "Eight life sentences, issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, 1998".Not to be outshone by the achievements of other classmates, Kaczynski also listed his book of anti-technological rants, published in 2010.A child prodigy born in Chicago, Kaczynksi was accepted into Harvard, graduated in 1962 and went on to earn a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan.After working as an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California Berkeley, Kaczynksi dropped out and moved to a remote cabin in Montana.His bombing campaign, which started in 1978, triggered one of the largest manhunts in US history.The Harvard Alumni Association has issued an apology for publishing the update."We regret publishing Kaczynski's references to his convictions and apologise for any distress that it may have caused others," the group said in a statement.

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[Dawn Meredith]

Bernice - thank you for posting thse links to the June 2000 article.

David Guyatt and I had a long discussion about this many moons ago. Part of our exchange ended up online, but no longer seems to exist.

Theodore Kaczynski is a very bright man, and as such he was targeted and enrolled as a guinea pig in crude psychological experiments, conducted at Harvard, within what can crudely be described as behaviourist and eugenic frameworks.

It is unknowable quite what impact these experiments had on him.

However, I believe a fair case can be made that the Unabomber (note spelling) was born - in part - as a reaction to that abusive research.

A most interesting article. Somehow I doubt that we heard but a small part of Dr Murray's experimentation. Nothing in this article explains to me how someone could go on to kill, absent some predisposition.
Dawn

[Keith Millea]

John Zerzan was in contact with TK,and probably knows more about his personality than anyone else.I don't know if he has written anything about his experience with Ted or not.He would be a good person to contact for research information.

Lauren just posted about Zerzan yesterday in this thread below:

https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...-Worthless

[Jan Klimkowski]

I've merged two Unabomber threads so that pertinent material is not lost....

[Keith Millea]

I couldn't find any writings about the conversations John Zerzan had with the Unabomber.It is clear though that they share a similar philosophy.Zerzan doesn't care much for Chris Hedges or Derrick Jenson,which is not surprising.Below, is Zerzan's webpage with his various publications.

http://www.johnzerzan.net/books/