Today is Friday, April 3rd, 2020.

On this day in 1996, the FBI arrested an infamous domestic terrorist at his cabin in the Montana wilderness.

It was the culmination of a 17-year manhunt for a man known as theunabomber.

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Today we're covering the arrest of 53-year-old Ted Kaczynski, also known as the

Unabomber. Let's go back to a patch of secluded woods near Lincoln, Montana on April 3rd, 1996.

That morning likely seemed like any other to Ted Kaczynski, but it was hard to know what a normal day was to a man like him.

For the most part he kept to himself, speaking to few people, and sometimes spending days at a time in his

small, hand-built cabin out in the woods.

When neighbors did see Kaczynski, he was almost always dressed the same, either in

dark clothes or military fatigues, with dark glasses covering his eyes. Kaczynski liked to do things himself. He was repulsed by modern technology

and aimed to be as self-sufficient as possible. That was the reason he'd

abandoned an academic career and moved into the small Montana

cabin in 1971 at the age of 29.

His departure from his teaching position at the University of California, Berkeley,

was surprising to his colleagues, who viewed him as a brilliant mathematical prodigy.

More shocking was his subsequent commitment to survivalism.

He spent much of the next two decades learning how to live off the land. Kaczynski grew his own vegetables, hunted rabbits and stewed alone with his thoughts, but most of all he read voraciously.

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