Unabom Information

This site links to articles and commentary about the Unabom spectacle. Of particular interest is public discourse, the role of media and public officials, and an attempt to discover what the Unabomber's views really are.

• Unabom Suspect Arrested 4/4/96
  • Earth First! Responds to April 5 ABC News Story Blaming Them April 7
  • U.S. Detains Ex-Professor as Unabomber Suspect, NY Times, April 4, 1996
  • Unabomber Suspect in Custody, SF Chronicle, April 4, 1996
  • Harvard grad jailed in Unabomber case, USA Today, April 4, 1996

• WWW site for the Freedom Club (interesting Unabomber info)
  
  
• Role of Media and Public Officials
  • Letter from Penthouse Publisher to Unabomber (that appears to be an ad for Penthouse)
  • Unabomber Calls Threat a Prank, But security at airports remains tight, (6/29/95 San Francisco Chronicle)
  • Unabomer Makes Fools of Government and Media, commentary on public officials' actions after late June 1995 threat to blow up airliner (7/2/95)
  • Rants on current events--a "bomber" becomes a "serial killer"

• Hints about the Unabomber's Views
  • Unabomber's Manifesto, nicely formatted by Time-Warner
  • Unabomber's Manifesto, full text in two linked files (may be too large for some WWW viewers)
  • Condensed version of Unabomber's Manifesto
  • Letters sent by the Unabomber
  • Unabomber's letter to NY Times demanding publication of his manifesto
  • Kirkpatrick Sale comments on the Unabomber's views
  • Much has been written about the FBI giving copies of the Unabomber's tract to University Professors to analyze (see, for example, Scholars find no cludes in Unabom writings--SF Examiner 8/13/95). Many professors contend that his arguments "are familiar to anyone with a background in political science" but "rarely heard in the mainstream media". This appears to be one of the Unabomber's main points: that these ideas do not get wide circulation (and are unknown to most people). This is why he feels he needs to resort to such drastic actions.
  • NY Times publishes excerpts from the Unabomber's Manifesto, August 2, 1995
  • Unabomber sends his Manifesto, one of the few sources that gives more than one line about his views (6/30/95 San Francisco Chronicle)
  • Excepts from Analysis of Unabomber's Manuscript by the Washington Post
  • Some anti-technology anarchists comment on Unabomber (5/16/95 San Francisco Chronicle)
  • Information about Anarchism on the WorldWide Web
  • Example of a critique of technology
  • Are You the Unabomber?, by Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, July 21, 1995

• Sources for news updates
  • FBI Unabom Information
  • San Jose Mercury site for Unabom articles (some of these are hilarious pop-psych)
  • Investigators (think they're) Zeroing in on Elusive Unabomber, by Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, August 8, 1995