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Kaczynski, Ted
Theodore John “Ted” Kaczynski (1942-) is an American domestic terrorist, social critic, neoLuddite, and anarchist. In 1996, federal agents arrested and a federal grand jury indicted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, for mailing bombs over the course of almost two decades that killed three people and wounded 23 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) pursuit of the Unabomber was one of the most famous and costly ones in American history.
Kaczynski pleaded guilty to the charges against him in 1998, although he later claimed the ...
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