Squiz Shortcuts: Who was the Unabomber?

A new film about Ted Kaczynski, an American man who went from a teenage maths genius to a serial bomber, is about to be released on Netflix. He came to be known as ‘the Unabomber’ and his 17-year campaign against the advancement of modern technology killed 3 people and injured dozens more. So with the case back in the news, we thought it might be helpful in this Squiz Shortcut to get you across who the Unabomber was, how he was unmasked, and why there’s been some criticism of the new movie…

Presented by Andrew Williams and Larissa Huntington

Researched by Larissa Huntington

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Reading/watching: This article breaks down the actors in Unabomber and who they’re all playing, just in case you want to put some faces to names. And here’s the trailer for the new movie.

Reading: This piece from The Conversation that was published after Kaczynski’s death in 2023 goes into the linguistic tells we all have in our written expression that give clues to our identity.

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