Terror and Technology: The Unabomber

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Twenty years ago the FBI ended their longest-running domestic terrorism investigation with the arrest of the Unabomber, a notorious serial killer obsessed with technology. Between 1978 - 1995, Theodore Kaczynski lived in a remote cabin in rural Montana, from where he planned the downfall of industrial society. A brilliant academic, Kaczynski was motivated by a desire to punish anyone connected with technology.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
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0:21.0	Just over 20 years ago, on the 3rd of April 1996, America's Domestic Security Service, the FBI, finally caught the subject of its longest-running
0:26.6	terrorism investigation.
0:27.6	The longest and most intense man-hunting US history has zeroed in on a prime suspect and
0:35.3	may be nearing an end.
0:36.6	Our other major story tonight, a break in the Unabomber case.
0:39.6	FBI agents are searching the Montana cabin of former mathematics professor Ted Kaczynski.
0:46.4	Just moments ago we received these pictures of the suspect in custody sitting in the back
0:51.0	of a white truck.
0:52.0	Sir, are you responsible for these bombings?
0:54.0	Sorry.
0:56.0	Between 1978 and 1995,
0:59.0	a serial bomber had mailed or planted
1:02.0	16 homemade explosive devices at locations across the United States.
1:07.0	He had killed three people and injured 23.
1:11.0	My initial thought was that someone had come around the corner of the building and
1:15.0	shot me with a shotgun. And I thought, oh man, I might not make it.
1:20.6	The FBI gave the bomber a pseudonym.
1:23.0	Unabomber actually comes from the first few cases.
1:26.0	The first few targets were universities and airlines.
1:29.0	So the FBI has found that it's a great tool to get public attention by putting a name on this so they called it
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