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The Unabomber Gets His Start (1978)

Published: May 25, 2021, 11:30 a.m.

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It\\u2019s May 25th. This day in 1978, a suspicious package mailed to a university in Chicago blows up.

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Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the start of what would be a 15-year campaign by Ted Kaczynski to mail packages to universities, airlines, and other people he saw as causing the advance of modernity and the destruction of the environment. Kaczynski would eventually be captured and be known as \\u201cThe Unabomber.\\u201d

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Find a transcript of this episode at:\\xa0https://tinyurl.com/esoterichistory

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