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Unabomber Harvard University academic scholarship:
Three-story home with a small footprint and intricate trim
8 Prescott St, Kaczynski’s home during his first year at Harvard
Ted Kaczynski matriculated at Harvard College as a mathematics prodigy. During his first year at the university, Kaczynski lived at 8 Prescott Street, which was intended to provide a small, intimate living space for the youngest, most precocious incoming students. For the following three years, he lived at Eliot House. His housemates and other students at Harvard described Kaczynski as a very intelligent but socially reserved person. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Harvard in 1962, finishing with a GPA of 3.12.

On July 2, 1982, Engineering professor Diogenes J. Angelakos entered a faculty lounge used by mathematics and computer science personnel in Cory Hall. There, he noticed a strange-looking piece of equipment.

At first, he believed it must be some type of measuring device — one prominent feature was a gauge of some sort. The apparatus incorporated a metal container and featured a carrying handle resembling a handsaw grip.

When he lifted the handle, a pipe bomb placed inside the metal can exploded. Almost instantly metal shrapnel — and the sheer force of the blast - caused serious damage to Angelakos’ face, hand and arm. Flesh was torn from his fingers, and tendons were decimated.

That the container of gasoline itself had not ignited into a devastating fireball was incredibly fortunate. Later, Professor Angelakos explained why: “The idiot filled the tank to the top...and didn’t leave enough air for the gasoline to explode.”

Again, the Unabomber had signed his handiwork with amateurism. And perhaps more; a fragment of paper had survived the blast. On it, the Unabomber typed “- it works! I told you it would. RV.”

Although the message made no sense to investigators at the time, it turned out the Unabomber had attempted to implicate previous Berkeley colleagues, Hung Hsi Wu and Robert Vaught.

For almost three years, the bombings stopped. But then, the Unabomber returned to haunt Professor Diogenes Angelakos.

On May 15, 1985, Air Force Captain and Berkeley grad Student John Hauser entered a computer lab in Cory Hall at Berkeley. There, he noticed an out of place three ring binder near a computer. When he opened the binder’s cover it exploded.

Industrial Society and Its Future
Theodore Kaczynski 1995

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