#title Time Line
#subtitle 16 Bombs, Three Deaths
#date 1998
#source [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/bkgrdstories.ted.htm][The Washington Post]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2023-07-30T10:51:26
#authors
#topics News Stories

** 1970s

<strong>1978</strong>

<strong>May 25:</strong> Package found at University of Illinois at Chicago brought to Northwestern University in Evanston because of return address. A day later it explodes, injuring security guard Terry Marker.

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<strong>1979</strong>

<strong>May 9:</strong> John Harris, a graduate student, injured in blast at Northwestern.

<strong>Nov. 15:</strong> Bomb explodes in cargo hold during American Airlines flight, injuring 12 and forcing emergency landing at Dulles International Airport.

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** 1980s

<strong>1980</strong>

<strong>June 10:</strong> Package bomb injures United Airlines president Percy Wood at home near Chicago.

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<strong>1981</strong>

<strong>Oct. 8:</strong> Bomb found in business classroom at University of Utah in Salt Lake City is safely defused.

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<strong>1982</strong>

<strong>May 5:</strong> Janet Smith, secretary, injured at Vanderbilt University in Nashville by bomb addressed to a computer science professor.

<strong>July 2:</strong> Bomb injures Diogenes J. Angelakos, electrial engineering and computer science professor, at University of California at Berkeley.

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<strong>1983</strong>

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<strong>1984</strong>

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<strong>1985</strong>

<strong>May 15:</strong> John Hauser, a graduate student in electrical engineering, injured by bomb found in Berkeley computer room.

<strong>June 13:</strong> Package bomb discovered and disarmed at Boeing Co. in Auburn, Wash.

<strong>Nov. 15:</strong> Psychology professor James McConnell and assistant Nicklaus Suino injured by bomb addressed to McConnell at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

<strong>Dec. 11:</strong> Bomb kills Hugh Scrutton near his Sacramento computer store.

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<strong>1986</strong>

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<strong>1987</strong>

<strong>Feb. 20:</strong> Bomb injures Gary Wright near his Salt Lake City computer shop. Unabomber sighting leads to police sketch.

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<strong>1988</strong>

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<strong>1989</strong>

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** 1990s

<strong>1990</strong>

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<strong>1991</strong>

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<strong>1992</strong>

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<strong>1993</strong>

<strong>June 22:</strong> Bomb injures Charles Epstein, University of California at San Francisco geneticist, at home.

<strong>June 24:</strong> David Gelernter, Yale University computer scientist, injured in office blast.

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<strong>1994</strong>

<strong>Dec. 10:</strong> Advertising executive Thomas Mosser killed by bomb sent to his North Caldwell, N.J., home.

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<strong>1995</strong>

<strong>April 24:</strong> California Forestry Association president Gilbert P. Murray killed by package bomb in Sacramento office.

<strong>June:</strong> Unabomber sends 35,000-word manifesto to The Washington Post and New York Times. Threatens to bomb unspecified location if it is not published.

<strong>June 28:</strong> In letter to San Francisco Chronicle, Unabomber threatens attack on a flight out of Los Angeles.

<strong>Sept. 19:</strong> Post, Times publish manifesto.

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<strong>1996</strong>

<strong>April 3:</strong> Theodore J. Kaczynski detained after brother's tip leads FBI to stakeout of Montana shack and discovery of partially constructed bombs.

<strong>April 4:</strong> Kaczynski charged with a federal weapons violation.

<strong>June 9:</strong> Kaczynski charged in fatal Sacramento bombings.

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<strong>1997</strong>

<strong>December 22:</strong> Jury of nine women and three men is seated.

<strong>December 30:</strong> Public learns that federal prosecutors and Justice Department officials rejected Kaczynski's offer to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty.

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<strong>1998</strong>

<strong>January 5:</strong> Kaczynski [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/bkgrdstories.trial0106.htm][halts the first day]] of his trial, asking to meet privately with the judge to protest his brother's presence in the courtroom and to make other demands concerning his defense.

<strong>January 7:</strong> A federal judge tells Theodore J. Kaczynski that he must keep his lawyers.

<strong>January 8:</strong> Suspected of trying to commit suicide in his jail cell, Kaczynski agrees to a [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/bkgrdstories/psych0109.htm][psychiatric evaluation]] of his competence to stand trial and to conduct his own defense.

<strong>January 12:</strong> Defense attorneys and federal prosecutors renew discussions of a [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/bkgrdstories/plea0112.htm][plea bargain]] that would spare Kaczynski the threat of the death penalty.

<strong>January 20:</strong> Prosecution and defense attorneys agree with a government psychiatrist that Kaczynski is [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/bkgrdstories/plea0112.htm][competent]] to stand trial.

<strong>January 21:</strong> Attorneys for both sides agree that Kaczynski has the right to [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/bkgrdstories.repself0122.htm][represent himself]] in court.

<strong>January 22:</strong> After Judge Burrell rejects Kaczynski's request to represent himself, Kaczynski [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/bkgrdstories.plead0123.htm][pleads guilty]] to being the Unabomber.

<strong>May 4:</strong> An unrepentant Kaczynski is sentenced to [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/bkgrdstories/sentence050598.htm][four life terms]] in prison with no possibility of release.