Special Report: A Question of Competency Trial Transcripts The Unabomber: A Chronology Documents from the Case Reports from Court TV & American Lawyer Media The Players The Bombings The Counts Against Kaczynski The Unabomber's Manifesto Building the Unabombs The Bombings The following bombing attacks are attributed to the Unabomber: 1) 1978 - Evanston, IL 2) 1979 - Evanston, IL 3) 1979 - American Flt. 444 4) 1980 - Lake Forest, IL 5) 1981 - Salt Lake City, UT 6) 1982 - Nashville, TN 7) 1982 - Berkeley, CA 8) 1985 - Berkeley, CA 9) 1985 - Auburn, WA 10) 1985 - Ann Arbor, MI 11) 1985 - Sacramento, CA 12) 1987 - Salt Lake City, UT 13) 1993 - Tiburon, CA 14) 1993 - New Haven, CT 15) 1994 - North Caldwell, NJ 16) 1995 - Sacramento, CA 1 May 26, 1978 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL A package is returned to Professor Buckley Crist at Northwestern University. He is suspicious of the fact that his name is on the return address and contacts the Department of Public Safety at Northwestern. When a public safety officer opens the package, it explodes, causing the officer minor injuries. (Full description | back to top) 2 May 9, 1979 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Another incident at Northwestern. A cigar box with a bomb inside is left on a table in a lounge inside one of the buildings. John G. Harris, a civil engineering graduate student opens the box, which explodes and causes him cuts and burns. (Full description | back to top) 3 November 15, 1979 American Airlines Flight 444 A mail bomb is sent from a post office in Chicago, and placed aboard an American Airlines flight bound for Washington, D.C. The bomb, equipped with a barometer to measure altitude, explodes as the plane reaches 34,500 feet. Smoke fills the cabin and the pilots are forced to make an emergency landing at Dulles Airport in Virginia. Eighteen passengers are treated on the scene for smoke inhalation, but there are no major injuries. (Full description | back to top) 4 June 10, 1980 Lake Forest, IL A package at the home of United Airlines president Percy Wood contains a copy of the book, "Ice Brothers." When Wood opens the book, a bomb inside goes off, causing him serious cuts on his face and thigh. (Full description | back to top) 5 October 8, 1981 Salt Lake City, UT A student at the University of Utah discovers a package in a hallway and brings it to the attention of a university staff member, who calls the campus police. The campus police chief believes it is a bomb and brings in a bomb squad, which diffuses the device with a small explosive charge. No one is injured. (Full description | back to top) 6 May 5, 1982 Nashville, TN A package is sent to Professor Patrick C. Fischer at Vanderbilt University, but Fischer is out of the country, lecturing in Puerto Rico. His secretary, Janet Smith, opens the package and is seriously injured on her face and arms when it explodes. The return address is listed as an engineering professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, for whom officials think the package was intended. (Full description | back to top) 7 July 2, 1982 Berkeley, CA Berkeley engineering professor Diogenes J. Angelakos lifts the handle of what appears to be a piece of equipment on the floor of a faculty lounge in Cory Hall at Berkeley. The object explodes, causing him serious injuries to his hand, arm and face. (Full description | back to top) 8 May 15, 1985 Berkeley, CA Another explosion at Cory Hall in Berkeley. Air Force captain and Berkeley graduate student John Hauser finds a three-ring binder attached to a file box in a computer lab in Cory Hall. When he opens the binder's cover, it explodes, causing him serious injuries: partial loss of vision in his left eye and trauma to his right hand -- including nerve damage and the loss of four fingers. (Full description | back to top) 9 June 13, 1985 Auburn, WA A package with no specific recipient arrives at the Fabrication Division of Boeing in Auburn, Washington, where it remains in interoffice mail until it is sent to the mail room. Employees there partially open it and find a bomb inside. They call in a bomb squad, which diffuses it. No one is injured. (Full description | back to top) 10 November 15, 1985 Ann Arbor, MI University of Michigan psychology professor James McConnell is sent a package with a letter attached to the outside from a Ralph Kloppenburg in Utah, requesting that McConnell review an enclosed manuscript. Nick Suino, McConnell's assistant, opens the package, which explodes. The blast injures Suino's arm and midsection and causes McConnell to lose part of his hearing. (Full description | back to top) 11 December 11, 1985 Sacramento, CA Hugh Scrutton, owner of a Sacramento computer store, is killed when he moves a package in the parking lot behind his store. (Full description | back to top) 12 February 20, 1987 Salt Lake City, UT Gary Wright, vice-president of a Salt Lake City firm, is seriously injured by a bomb in a parking lot behind his office. A secretary there sees a man with a mustache in a sweatshirt placing what turns out to be the bomb next to a car. The description of the man becomes the sketch that is the only representation of the alleged Unabomber for several years until Ted Kaczynski is arrested in 1996. (Full description | back to top) 13 June 22, 1993 Tiburon, CA A package arrives at the house of geneticist Charles Epstein. He opens it in his kitchen, and it explodes, causing him a broken arm, abdominal trauma and the loss of several fingers. (Full description | back to top) 14 June 24, 1993 New Haven, CT A mail bomb sent to Yale computer scientists David Gelernter explodes when he opens it, causing him to lose sight in one eye, hearing in one ear and the loss of part of his right hand. (Full description | back to top) 15 December 10, 1994 North Caldwell, NJ A package bomb explodes outside the home of advertising executive Thomas Mosser, who is killed in the explosion. (Full description | back to top) 16 April 24, 1995 Sacramento, CA Gilbert Murray, president of the California Forestry Association, opens a package bomb which arrives at his office, a few blocks from the courthouse where the trial against Kaczynski is now taking place. The blast kills Murray. (Full description | back to top) HOMEPAGE | VERDICTS | FAMOUS CASES | TRIAL TRACKING | LEGAL DOCUMENTS | PROGRAM GUIDE | CTTV STORE | GAMES/CONTEST | LEGAL TERMS | SEARCH | INDEX | HOW TO GET CTTV | COMMENTS Copyright© 1999 by the Courtroom Television Network LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this site may be reproduced in any form without permission of Court TV.Nothing in this site is intended to constitute legal advice. 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