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boogers hanging out of my nose, it's flaky dry skin, thank you. Okay, Theodore Kaczynski
was born in Chicago of 1942 to a working class family
of Polish ancestry. He had a younger brother named David who would later become involved in his older siblings arrest, and we'll get to that. So people who attended school with Ted, noted that he was a loner
who excelled academically and I'm laughing because it's just like, he's a loner who excelled. Now growing up Ted, we're gonna call him Ted not Theodore, he was very, very smart. He skipped sixth grade and it said around this time
is when he really started to get socially awkward, and it really started to
affect his personality as well. So he skipped sixth grade and then he just started
getting picked on a lot because he's quote unquote, weird. He was very smart and he
didn't have any friends. So let's be honest, really easy target for middle-schoolers, especially little assholes,
is what I call him. Many people would
describe him as a shy kid and would become unresponsive, if he was ever pressured
into a social situation. Sorry, my hair is really
bothering me today. I needed to put it back. Okay, anyways. So throughout high school, Ted was ahead of his
classmates academically. He was placed in more
advanced math classes and he soon mastered math. Like he killed it in math, numbers. So then Ted actually skipped 11th grade, and then he actually finished high school, by attending summer school, and he graduated at the age of 15. Now, Ted, he was one of his school's
five national merit finalists, and he was encouraged to apply at Harvard. At the age of 16, in 1958 he entered Harvard on a scholarship, which is like, wow, amazing. I mean, that's a huge achievement. His family were so proud of him. He seemed a little off, he
seemed a little socially awkward but he could go so far. He had a lot of potential to
do great things, you know? And it's funny because he went to Harvard before even got his driver's license. I mean, hilarious. Wow, that's so funny Bailey. So while at college, that's the time to like
really make some friends and socialize and experiment. I don't know what they do at Harvard but it's probably a
bougier version of that. But while Ted was attending Harvard, he really didn't make any friends but he continued to perform
very, very well academically. Now when he was at Harvard, this is when he participated
in a controversial study, led by psychologist, Henry Murray. Now in experiment, subjects
we're asked to write an essay, on their personal philosophies. Later while hooked up to electroids, the study subjects were subjected to hours of insults and personal attacks. They wanted to measure, if it had an effect on the brain or if the brain responded
in some kind of way. Obviously it goes a lot deeper than that but the essays were used
as a basis for the insults. And it's believed that Ted
participated in this experiment for more than 200 hours, lasting for three years,
beginning in 1959. His mental and emotional
wellbeing suffered as a result. Now, some sources have suggested that this experiment were
part of Project MK Ultra, the CIA's research into mind control. It has also been suggested
that this experience, may have motivated Ted's
criminal activities which we can save MK
Ultra for another day. Working on that one. Okay, so in 1962, Ted actually
graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and then in 1964, he would
earn his master's degree. 1967, he would earn his doctorates. I don't know what you're thinking but what I'm thinking is
Ted is one smart cookie. Which, side note, have any of you guys
noticed how the killers in the stories that we talk about here? They're always very smart. Well not always. There's a lot of dummies. I'm sure there's some kind
of case study done, right? I don't know. Okay, anyways. So at the young age of just 25 years old, Ted had completed his education, and then he became the
youngest assistant professor, in the history of University
of California at Berkeley when he was hired to teach
undergraduate geometry and calculus in the fall of 1967. 25 nuts. Now just two years later, he
actually ended up resigning and he never really gave an
explanation as to why he did so, but he did. So after leaving Berkeley, he actually moved back to
Illinois to live with his mom, and I think his younger brother
was still there at the time. And he was there for about two years before he decided to move
out and to live in a cabin that he had built in the woods
outside of Lincoln, Montana. Now this was in 1971. Moving to this cabin would have allowed him
to live a simple life with little money and without electricity or without running water. So it was gonna get like
real stinky in there. He wanted to live like this and
go after your goals in life. So Ted was really hoping
to live self-sufficient, by teaching himself survival
skills, such as like hunting and organic farming and
received some financial support from his family as well. He used an old bicycle to get around and like get into town and whatnot, and he also would volunteer
at a local library, which he would visit
often, like all the time to read classic works in
their original languages. Show off. Other local residents
who in the area said that his lifestyle wasn't necessarily
unusual in that area, and people just really
didn't think twice about it and like what he was
doing, living off the grid. So Ted is out there
just living in his cabin and this was in 1975 and he started to grow more and more upset by the real estate and industrial development
in the area around his cabin. So like there was just
free land surrounding him, and he would say like, beautiful hills, just sorts of green. It was open. It was beautiful. It was fresh clean air, and then slowly they were
starting to destroy the land, they were starting to build, just crap. It was just really getting to Ted. So Ted had this great idea, like I'm gonna vandalize
these construction sites in the Lincoln area, okay? If I like destroy them,
spray paint them, whatever, I'm gonna sabotage this development and then they'll stop. So he would go out at
night when nobody was there and he would paint on them. He would try his best to just destroy it as best as he could, and this is where things just
kind of really began for Ted. So Ted realized that trying
to destroy the construction or whatever, it really wasn't working. He had to go after the big guys. So he decided to make his own bombs, cause that's all of our first thoughts. He's like, I'm gonna make these bombs and then mail them to people. The people who are responsible
for destroying the land. He would make these bombs and then he would send them through either the US Postal Service, or sometimes he would
occasionally like hand deliver, the actual package or
the mail bomb himself. So these bombs lasted
over a period of 17 years and it started in 1978. His first target was
Northwestern University professor of engineering, Buckley Crist. I think is his last name. Now I guess the package was
left outside of his building, like out in the parking lot, and it had his name on it. Somebody picked it up
and handed it to Buckley. Right away, this
professor, he was concerned because he knew that
this package wasn't his and it was super suspish. So he calls up the security guard and he lets them know, this is weird, you open it. So the security guard opens up the package and this bomb exploded. It was inside of the package, and it wasn't like to its
fullest and greenest potential. Luckily the security guard
only suffered a hand injury but that was the first one. Now it's unclear why Ted targeted Buckley. Ted is back in Illinois and he's working with his
father and his brother, and shortly after Ted actually
got fired from that job, for insulting a lady supervisor, who he like briefly had a
romantic relationship with. He was bitter that it didn't work out. So there was no link happening
to Ted from that first bomb. It was so random and there was, yeah. Nobody knew where the hell
that came from and why. So then in 1979, a bomb was
placed in the cargo hold, American Airlines Flight 444, which was flying from
Chicago to Washington DC. Now the bomb had a faulty timing mechanism which prevented the bomb from exploding but it released smoke, which
forced an emergency landing. So they were like up in the air
and smoke started coming up. Dodged a bullet there, right? So once the plane landed, they were able to get the
bomb off of the plane. Everyone was fine, thank God right? So they're able to look at this bomb and they realize if the bomb had worked, it would have completely
obliterated the plane, the plane. So they got so lucky and because bombing an
airliner is a federal crime, the FBI became involved. Okay, so in these bombs he was making... Sorry I was trying to get this open. In these bombs he was making, he would always leave some kind of clue. The first clue was like a metal plate and it is stamped with the
initials FC hidden somewhere, and usually it was like
in the pipe end cap, and he did this in
almost every single bomb. So they knew it was like the same person, doing it over and over again. Another clue included
a note left in a bomb that did not go off and it read, woo, it works. I told you it would, RV, unquote. That was a quote. The FBI was trying to profile
who they think this person is, so they came up with this bomber person, had a theme of like nature,
trees and wood in his crimes. Ted would often include
bits of tree branch and bark in his bombs. So there FBI's like, yeah, nature. He's a nature guy. In December of 1985, there
was a bomb that was sent to Sacramento, computer store
owner, Hugh Scrutton, Hugh. And it exploded because he
opened it and it exploded, and it actually led to his death. The bomb itself was filled
with nails and splinters, so when he opened it up and it exploded, yeah, ouch. Now this would be the first
fatality caused by these bombs. There had been no deaths yet. Okay, so let's just go
over the table of bombings because there's a lot, and of course, if I go through one by one with all these stories, let's be real, we're all gonna get very confused. So I will just briefly
kind of touch on it. So May 25th, 1978 we have Terry Marker who was
a university police officer and the injuries were
just minor cuts and burns. Then we have May 9th,
1979, we have John Harris. He was a graduate student and he only got minor cuts and burns. November 15th, 1979, we have
that American Airlines Flight, had 12 past passengers. Luckily it was just nonlethal smoke. Then June 10th, 1980, we have Percy Wood and he was the president
of United Airlines. He got severe cuts and burns
over most of his body and face. October 8th, 1981, the
bomb went off early, so luckily it hurt nobody. May 5th, 1982, we have Janet Smith, and she was a university secretary. Severe burns to her hands. July 2nd, 1982, we have Diogenes. He's an engineering professor. He had severe burns and wounds
on his hands and his face. May 15th, 1985, we have John Hauser. He was a graduate student. He lost four fingers, a severed
artery in his right arm, and he lost part of his
vision in his left eye. June 13th, 1985, he went
after an airline company. The bomb went off early,
so nobody was hurt. November 15th, 1985, we
have James McConnell, who was a psychology professor and Nicklaus who was a research assistant. They were both together at
this time the bomb went off. One of them has temporary hearing loss. December 11th, 1985, Hugh Scrutton, which was the computer store owner, that was the first death. February 20th, 1987, Gary Wright. He was a computer store owner as well. Severe nerve damage to the left arm. June 22nd, 1993, we have Charles Epstein. He had severe damage to both eardrums with some hearing loss, and he also lost three fingers. June 24th, 1993, David,
last name Gelernter, I don't know you guys, fuck. He lost his complete right hand. December 10th, 1994, Thomas. He died and he was an
advertising executive. April 24th, 1995, we
have Gilbert Brent Murray and he was a timber industry lobbyist, and he also died. So that is the complete list. I was trying my best to like
keep that kind of simple but I feel like I made
it really confusing. I'm really trying my best here, and that's all I can do. Now at this point, the FBI still had no idea
who the Unabomber was. The FBI called the ongoing
investigation, UNABOM U-N-A-B-O-M for university
and airline bomber. And then the media took that and they dubbed the
attacker, the Unabomber, and that's how he got his name. Still Ted's identity was
unknown to authorities. Now, of course that all changed when Ted sent his now infamous
manifesto to the media. And this happened in the summer of 1995. Ted sent letters demanding
that his essay entitled quote, 'Industrial society and its future', unquote, be published. He sent these letters to
different media companies who ran newspapers,
magazines, whatever, and said you need to post this or more
people are going to get hurt. Naturally, these people are kinda torn. What do we do? Do we do what he says or do we ignore it? And FBI director agreed that the manifesto should be published. Now this was a very controversial decision but they decided to do it out
of concern for public safety, and mainly, mainly,
they were really hoping that somebody out there,
once it got published, could identify who this person was because it wasn't just
like any other writing, they were just like are words being used that somebody had to
recognize, somebody would know. In this manifesto, Ted would
go on to argue that technology and industrialized society
destroys human freedom because it needs to quote, regulate human behavior
closely in order to function, unquote. So Ted wrote the manifesto on
a typewriter without italics. He capitalizes entire
words to show emphasis and he always refers to
himself as either we or FC. FC stood for Freedom Club though there's absolutely no evidence that he worked with anybody else. Just fuckin him by himself. Now, of course you can read the manifesto, it's quite long, but I'm gonna try my
best and summarize it. So this is gonna be good. Ted, Ted, Ted. He writes that technology has had a destabilizing effect on society, has made life unfulfilling and has caused widespread
psychological suffering. He's got some points. He's got some points. He argues that most people, spend their time engaged
in useless pursuits because of technological advances. He calls these surrogate activities where people strive
towards artificial goals, including scientific work,
consumption of entertainment and following sports teams. And I must say, I read this like, go on. Now he predicts the further
technological advances, will lead to extensive
human genetic engineering, and that human beings will
be adjusted to meet the needs of social systems, rather than vice versa. He calls for a return
to quote, wild nature. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now he was calling for a
revolution against technology and it may be possible. But for the most part, his manifesto was all
about how a technology was ruining society. And after reading that,
because in my mind, this is a side note has
nothing to do with Ted but I always thought as the Unabomber, was just like reckless and like
killing just random people, cause he thought it was fun. I read this, the manifesto thing and I was like, dude, this guy... Look, he had a great point. He had such a great point
and look where we are today. We are completely
controlled by the internet, by TV, by media. These companies are
taking all of our data, selling it so they can
potentially control us with it. That's a whole another video in itself. And if you're not worried about that, then that's a big problem. It's quite scary. Anyways, but what he
was getting at is that, this needs to be taken down. This system needs to be taken down. And I was like, wow, but look, the way he went about it, bombing people, obviously not smart. Would not suggest that and I
do not stand by that of course. I'm not here for that. But he actually is
making some great points. Now the feedback of this manifesto, was actually kind of good. Not everybody understood
quite what Ted was getting at, kinda like flew completely
over their head, but there was a lot of
people who did agree with what he was saying, and there were several
essays that were written and published in support of his ideas. Of course they did not
stand by what he was doing, like harming people. Sorry to change my hair again, I'm just like really over a hair. In 1980, the FBI worked with a profiler to help like identify the Unabomber. So when they issue a
psychological profile, they create who they
think this guy or girl is, and they described the offender as a man with above average intelligence. They believed he was
holding an academic degree in hard sciences, but this psychology based
profile was discarded in 1983. They thought, no, this guy probably works
for the airline company. Now, before the Unabomber's
manifesto went live, Ted's younger brother, David Kaczynski, was encouraged by his wife to
follow up on the suspicions that Ted was the Unabomber. Ted's younger brother
didn't wanna fully believe that the Unabomber was his brother, but in the back of his
mind, he was thinking, you know what, Ted really hated like technology and where he thought this was all going. It made him very upset but Ted has never showed
signs of aggression. There's no way this is him. Like, it was just kind of a silly thought. But David's wife who had never met Ted, she only like heard about him
and read some of his writings from her husband who
was the younger brother, she was like, you have
to read this manifesto. He told his wife, Okay, sure. I'll read it only just to prove
to you that this isn't him. There's no way. David, the younger brother and Ted, they weren't really speaking at that time, the reason being is because Ted had disconnected
from everyone and everything. It wasn't anything personal, it's just what Ted always wanted. So they just kinda let him be out there. Anyways, so David, the
younger brother is like, okay lady, to his wife, I'm gonna read this manifesto, and I'm just gonna prove
to you it's not him. It's just not him, but I'll read it. So he reads the manifesto
and he's like, oh, shit. There's just a couple phrases that Ted had used once
before in a couple letters. Of course David's like, fuck, fuck. David goes through the garage, and he's looking for
letters written by Ted, dating back to 1970 and Ted
had sent letters to newspapers to protest the abuse of technology, using phrases similar to
the ones in the manifesto. It's fuckin Ted. He hires a private investigator. David then went on to hire an attorney to organize the evidence that was acquired by the private investigator
and make contact with the FBI. The reason he was kind of like
going around the situation, is because if he went to the FBI, he would get bombarded by the news, media and just really lose
control of the situation. Plus David wanted to protect his brother from the danger he feared
like a very violent outcome. It was also his brother
and he felt a ton of guilt. David went to their mother and said, I think it's Ted, and kind of showed her all the evidence of why he was thinking this way, and their mother said, Oh David, please don't tell anybody. And David told his mom, I'm sorry, I already did. Once the FBI was contacted, they showed them the comparison of the manifesto and the writings. Now based off of this, they were allowed to get a search warrant, which would allow them to go and get and search the Unabomber's place. The FBI then contacted David and David asked the FBI to
please keep this a secret, don't tell anybody I told you don't tell anybody about me please. But of course the information was leaked. It was put out there on CBS News, the media caught on to it and
it completely just blew up. Okay, I changed my hair again. So then April 3rd, 1996, they got a search warrant
to go into Ted's cabin and they also got the
location of the cabin. They got helicopters out there, surrounding the area. They went in and they they got him. And there is where they found Ted, in a very disheveled state, and he was surrounded by
bomb making tools and parts. There was also one live
bomb ready for mailing. He was arrested and he was taken in. The media played the
arrest like everywhere. So later that month he was indicted by a federal grand jury on 10 counts of illegally transporting,
mailing and using bombs. He also was being charged
with three counts of murder. Now his attorneys wanted him
to enter an insanity plea but Ted refused and
instead just pleaded guilty to all charges. The media was calling him crazy, and once you get that
crazy title by the media, that's when people stop
taking you seriously, and he didn't want to
say that he was crazy. He's like, I'm not crazy. I'm not insane. I'm well-educated. My IQ is very high. I'm not going to consider myself insane. He was sentenced to eight life sentences, with no chance of parole, at the super-max security
prison in Florence, Colorado and that's where he remains to this day. For some odd reason, I
thought he had died by now, but he, he hasn't, he's still there. So David, the younger brother
of Ted, who turned him in, he wrote a memoir called 'Every Last Tie:The Story of
the Unabomber and His Family', which talks about David's relationship with his brother and his parents, and the difficult decision
that David and his wife faced when they came to suspect
Ted was the Unabomber. Says he has tried to reach out to Ted, he's wrote him many letters,
at least one a month, and he has yet to get a response. This was back in 2015. Ted did not want to believe
his brother turned him in, and when he found out it was true, it was heartbreaking to him. Ted said, quote, my brother would never
turn me in, he loves me, end quote. And then when it was true, Ted just has never spoke to him again. The latest I could find was 2015. So it may have changed. I think it was 2016, Ted actually wrote a
letter to the media saying, I'm ready to talk. and I would love to tell
my side of the story and how I'm not crazy, but nobody really cared. They were like, sorry, like you are crazy. I was watching a couple of interviews with David, Ted's brother and you could really see the guilt he felt for turning his brother in. Like they were such a
loving and close family, and then he had to turn
on him, which sucks. Like that's your only sibling and that's your only family member. Yeah, but he had to do it. I mean, he had to. That is the story about the Unabomber. Pretty much the Unabomber
wanted an anti-tech revolution. And it's interesting because
I always thought again that the Unabomber was this... There's a fly. Was this like person who was
targeting innocent people, which he did technically, but had great points. He went about it the wrong way. If he didn't kill people, he probably could have done
some really great things with his mind cause he's a very smart man. Let me know your thoughts down below. I hope that you have
a wonderful day today. You make good choices. Thank you so much for
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