Unique history of ‘Unabomber’: Journalism buckled under terrorist pressure this day 19 years ago. Both the Washington Post and the New York Times were forced to publish a 35,000 word (8 pages!) supplement by a terrorist nick-named Unabomber. He was a child prodigy, a brilliant Harvard mathematician, the youngest Professor in Berkeley. But later became the biggest threat to the United States. He was against modern industrial technology. He thought human race is doomed if it fails to contain the advancement of science and technology. He used to send letters mainly to UNiversity professors and Airlines which would explode like BOMBs (that is why the name UNABOMBer. His real name is Ted Kaczynski). He had killed 3 people and maimed 23 people using letter bombs during a span of two decades. He promised to stop his bombings if his ‘Manifesto’ was published, complete and unaltered in a couple of major newspapers. The FBI struggled for 19 long years to identify and capture this most wanted man. It requested these two prestigious newspapers to go ahead and publish it so as to prevent further bombings. They did it on the 19th of September 1995.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:20:41 +0000
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