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Unabomber Ted Kaczynski dies while serving life sentences in prison

  • Kaczynski was a child prodigy who went to Harvard at the age of 16 and became the youngest professor ever hired at UC Berkeley at the age of 25, but resigned after two years.
  • Kaczynski committed 16 bombings from 1978 to 1995 at airlines, universities, and computer stores, causing the deaths of three people and permanent injuries to more than 20 others.
  • Kaczynski retreated to a one-room, hand-built shack in rural Montana and made and mailed deadly homemade bombs across the country, leading to major changes in how Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes.
  • Kaczynski was sentenced to four life terms plus 30 years in federal prison starting in 1998, where a psychiatrist diagnosed him as a paranoid schizophrenic.
  • Kaczynski's manifesto argued that damage to the environment and the alienating effects of technology were so heinous that the social and industrial underpinnings of modern life should be destroyed.
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