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Morning Cup of Murder

195: The Unabomber - November 15 2019

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com Having a core set of beliefs is so important and to fight for those beliefs is brave and admirable. But, to put the lives of others in danger to do so, is where the line must be drawn. On November 15th 1979 a man we know as the Unabomber, put a bomb inside a plane and almost took the lives of 78 people and left 12 seriously injured. Unabomber Puts Bomb into Plane (1979) Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the Silver Lake section.

0:03.9

We have a weird.

0:05.7

A weird.

0:05.8

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.0

Morning.

0:09.7

Cuff of murder.

0:10.5

Having a core set of beliefs is so important, and to fight for those beliefs is brave and admirable.

0:17.0

But to put the lives of others in danger to do so is where the line must be drawn.

0:24.0

On November 15, 1979, a man we know as the Unabomber put a bomb inside a plane and almost took the lives of 78 people and left 12 severely injured.

0:37.1

So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled,

0:40.5

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. The life of Theodore Kaczynski

0:47.6

started off much differently than most of the men and women in our stories. That's not to say

0:53.7

he didn't struggle.

0:55.0

He was an ill child and was forced into isolation at an early age.

0:59.0

His IQ in school was so high he was able to skip grades, which ultimately left him bullied,

1:05.0

and his father shot himself in an effort to avoid his family watching him die of cancer.

1:18.0

But ultimately he was a happy child, extremely intelligent, and had a family who cared for him.

1:25.2

He entered Harvard on scholarship in 1958 when he was just 16 years old, and, though many believed he was emotionally unprepared to be in college, he graduated

1:29.1

in 1962 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and finished with a 3.12 GPA.

1:35.9

During his sophomore year, Ted participated in a case study in which the subjects were asked to

1:41.0

write essays dealing with their personal beliefs and aspirations, and

1:45.6

later be brutalized and attacked using the content of their writings.

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