Anecdotes

At twenty-five years old, Kaczynski became the youngest assistant professor of mathematics in the history of Berkeley University.

He was very withdrawn and antisocial as a child with little interested in friends or social interaction. His mother was so worried about Ted's social development that she considered entering him in a study for autistic children but decided against it.

He was UC Berkeley's youngest assistant professor of mathematics.

Before his brother David turned him in, the now-famous composite sketch of Kaczynski in a hoodie and aviator glasses was the closest the FBI ever came to IDing him as the Unabomber.

"Unabomber" was never an official nickname attributed to him; it came to stick because "UNABOM" was both the code name by which his case was classified and the name of the task force searching for him.

He volunteered at the local library near his cabin in Montana.

The manhunt for Kaczynski between 1978 and 1995 was the longest and costliest in FBI history.

Brother of David Kaczynski.

He graduated high school at the age of fifteen.

The prison cell where he currently resides is larger than the shack he lived in before his arrest. Unlike his shack, his cell has electricity, air conditioning, central heating, electric light and indoor plumbing.

Son of Wanda Kaczynski and Theodore Richard Kaczynski.

Kaczynski's cabin is currently housed, in its entirety, in the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on loan from the FBI as part of the "Inside Today's FBI" exhibition. The 12'x10' cabin is only slightly larger than the 12'x7' prison cell in Florence, Colorado, where he serves 8 life sentences.