Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is a former mathematics professor and domestic terrorist from the United States. He was a math genius who abandoned his academic career in 1969 to live a simple life. He was a certified genius with an I.Q of 167. To know everything regarding Ted Kaczynski biography, age, family, career, terrorists movements, and many more, Scroll down.
Who is Ted Kaczynski? biography, Age, Parents, family, Nationality, Education
Ted Kaczynski, real name Theodore John Kaczynski, was born on May 22, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. He is currently 79 years old and was born to working-class parents, Wanda Theresa and Theodore Richard Kaczynski, a sausage maker. They were both Polish Americans who were raised as Catholics but eventually converted to atheism. On April 11, 1939, they married, According to Ted Kaczynski biography.
Kaczynski was a bright child who showed an aptitude for mathematics from an early age, according to Ted Kaczynski biography. He entered at Harvard University when he was 16 years old and graduated in 1962. He began graduate studies in mathematics at the University of Michigan, getting a Ph.D. in 1967 and later that year accepting an assistant professor post at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Mathematical Career
After the completion of his bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard university with a GPA of 3.12, he enrolled in University of Michigan in 1962 where he earned his master and doctoral degree in mathematics in the year 1964 and 1967 respectively. According to the professor of Michigan university
“ He was an unusual person. Ted was not like the other graduate students. He was much more focused about his work. He had a drive to discover mathematical truth.”
During the year 1966, Kaczynski experienced intense sexual fantacies of becoming a female and undergo gender transition.He went to meet with a psychiatrist but changed his mind in the waiting room and returned without meeting the psychiatrist.
Afterwards he considered killing the psychiatrist and other person he hated, this is considered to be the “ turning point in his life”. In 1967, 25 years old Ted started teaching at university of California, his students were displeased by his teaching, used a straight method of teaching nor bothered to answer the questions of students. He resigned from the job in 1969 without a proper explanation.
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Primitive Life
“Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski has been moved to a federal medical center in North Carolina, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. https://t.co/0EcdCFpN6A
— CNN International (@cnni) December 23, 2021
After resigning from his job as a professor, he went back to his parents house. Two years later in 1971, he moved to a remote cabin in the outskirts of the city to live a primitive life with little money, no running water or electricity. He used to have a little sum of money from the library where he worked in the town .
He had a bicycle which he used as a means of transport and such lifestyle was unusual in that area. His father used to visit him frequently in his cabin .
Later in 1990, his father committed suicide as he was suffering from lung cancer.
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Terrorist Movements
Between 1978 and 1995, Ted mailed or hand delivered series of sophisticated bombs which killed three people and injured 23 people.
16 bombs attributed to Ted while the bombing device varied widely from years to years which contained the initials “FC” which later Ted stood as “freedom Club”.
His first mail bomb was to the professor of Northwestern University, Buckley Crist which just caused a minor injuries as the professor called the police when he saw the suspect mail.
Unabomber moved to medical facility from prison – https://t.co/uwWtYL3m2Z –
‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski, who is currently serving eight life sentences, has been transferred to a federal medical center in North Carolina, the US prison authorities have announced.
… pic.twitter.com/4jtRzOJEiE— kashco.co.uk (@Kashco_co_uk) December 24, 2021
His second bomb was in a cigar box, left on a table in northwestern University.
In 1979, he placed the bomb in the cargo hold of American Airlines Flight 444, a Boeing 727 flying from Chicago to Washington, D.C which didn’t explode due to faulty mechanism but made a huge smoke causing the pilots to make emergency landing.
In 1981, he placed a bomb in hallway of university of Utah which was disposed by campus police and bomb squad.
Who is Ted Kaczynski wife? Is he married in his life?
Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, had a difficult and sometimes hostile relationship with women. He 54 years old and had never had a girlfriend when he caught in 1996 for his bombing spree, which claimed the lives of three people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995. Ted lived alone in a cabin in Lincoln, Montana, as a mostly self-sufficient hermit. He had trouble connecting with women even before he became a recluse.
USA Today reported on Cushion-Pak, an Illinois rubber foam manufacturing near the Kaczynski family home. He was working for his younger brother David, who was a factory supervisor. According to FBI agent Kathy Puckett, who informed legal analyst Lis Wiehl in the author’s upcoming book “Hunting The Unabomber,” Ted and the woman had a few dates in 1978, and she also gave the future domestic terrorist what she believes was his first kiss at the age of 36.
“He writes about how she kissed him,” Puckett explained. “And, he describes it like a Martian meeting an Earthling. He said she was doing something with her tongue that he couldn’t quite understand. He had never kissed another woman in his life, because if he had, he would have written it down.”