The U.S. Marshals Service has decided to auction off a few of the personal effects of Theodore John “Ted” Kaczynski. Kaczynski is better known as ‘the Unabomber’. The online auction is underway and will continue until June 2. Proceeds of the auction will go to the targets of Kaczynski’s mail bombing spree; a spree which lasted nearly 20 years.
What will auction
On April 3, 1996, Kaczynski was captured in Montana in a cabin loaded with stuff. This stuff, about 60 lots of items, will be sold in the auction that is occurring. The hooded sweatshirt and dark glasses he is known for could be found in these items. His driver’s licenses, deeds, checks, transcripts, letters and birth certificate will all be sold. All of his personal documents found will sell. Many photos were found and will sell. Kaczynski’s clothing, books, bows, tools and watches will also all be sold. Additional on the block is the typewriter he used to write his Industrial Society and Its Future, also called the Unabomber Manifesto. There will even be 20,000 pages of the document sold, including hand-written and typed versions.
You can see the catalog, photos and information of all the items being sold. Just go to the GSA auction site to find them.
A domestic terrorist
Kaczynski was a mathematical prodigy after bring born in 1942 in Chicago, Ill. When he was 16, he got his undergraduate degree at Harvard. He got a PhD later from the University of Michigan. This was in mathematics. Kaczynski became increasingly frustrated with a society he saw as becoming rapidly technological. Kaczynski moved into a cabin in 1971. This one room cabin in Montana was supposed to help him become a self-sufficient male. He got the name Unabomber, due to University and Airline bomber put together, due to his 16 homemade mail bombs he sent to several airlines, universities and other targets between 1978 and 1995. Because of his bombs, three individuals died. Another 23 were injured. The subject of a nationwide FBI manhunt, Kaczynski was eventually turned in by his brother and his sister-in-law and captured in 1996. Kaczynski is now serving in the “supermax” prison for life without the chance of parole at age 69. This prison could be found ! in Florence, Colorado.
Technology used against him
In a statement to the press, “We will use the technology that Kaczynski railed against in his various manifestos to sell artifacts of his life,” was what U.S. Marshal Albert Najera said.
What people will pay
Nobody knows how much value is really in these items. “This is an unusual type of case,” Marshals spokeswoman Lynzey Donohue said today. “It’s really difficult to put a value on these items because of the intrinsic value they have based on his notoriety.”
Information from
NY Daily News
nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/05/18/2011-05-18_unabomber_ted_kaczynskis_belongings_hit_auction_block_sweatshirt_glasses_typewri.html
CNN
articles.cnn.com/2011-05-12/justice/us.unabomber.auction_1_auction-plan-unabomber-ted-kaczynski-auction-website?_s=PM:CRIME
The Sacramento Bee
sacbee.com/2011/05/13/3623703/unabomber-kaczynskis-personal.html
GSA Auctions
gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/gsaauctions/
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