1985 - 1987 The Unabomber: A Chronology Before the Bombings 1978-1982 1985-1987 1988-1995 1996-1997 The Trial 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 May 15, 1985 John Hauser, a Berkeley graduate student and Air Force captain, discovers a three-ring binder attached to a file box in the computer lab in Cory Hall, the site of the Unabomber attack in May of 1982. When he opens the binder, it explodes. Hauser sustains 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. Diogenes Angelakos, victim of the 1982 bomb, is across the hall when the bomb explodes and uses Hauser's tie to make a tourniquet. One of the metal pins used in the bomb has the letters "FC" etched onto it. June 13, 1985 A brown paper package with a return address of Weiburg Tool & Supply in Oakland, California -- a company that turns out to be fictitious -- arrives at the Fabrication Division of Boeing in Auburn, Washington. Because the parcel has no specific addressee, it remains in interoffice mail until it is sent to the mail room. Employees there partially open it and discover the bomb inside, whereupon they call in a bomb squad, which diffuses the bomb. Both metal plugs sealing the pipe containing the bomb have the initials "FC" stamped on them. The postal stamps used on the package have the phrase "America's Light Fueled By Truth and Reason" and "Of the People By the People For the People" printed on them. Fall of 1985 Kaczynski allegedly transports a bomb from Montana to Sacramento. November 15, 1985 University of Michigan psychology professor James McConnell is sent a package from a Ralph Kloppenburg at the University of Utah. Attached to the outside of the package is a letter to McConnell requesting that he review an enclosed manuscript. When Nick Suino, McConnell's assistant, opens the package, it explodes, injuring Suino's arm and midsection and causing McConnell, who is in the room at the time, to lose part of his hearing. It is later determined that Kloppenberg is a fictitious person. Again, the metal plugs on the bomb have "FC" stamped on them. The same types of postage stamps used on the Boeing bomb are used on this package. December 11, 1985 Hugh Scrutton, owner of the Rentech computer store in Sacramento, moves a package in the parking lot behind his store. The package explodes, killing Scrutton as shrapnel from the bomb rips open his chest and pierces his heart. One of the metal plugs on the bomb has the letters "FC" stamped into it. February 20, 1987 Gary Wright, vice-president of CAAMS, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah, is seriously injured by a bomb in a parking lot behind his office in another incident attributed to the Unabomber. A secretary there sees a man with a mustache in a sweatshirt placing what appeared to be two 2x4 pieces of wood nailed together -- what turns out to be the bomb -- next to a car. The employee's description is used in the sketch that ultimately comes to be the widely-used representation of the Unabomber. After this bombing, Unabom attacks appear to stop until 1993. 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. COURT TV is a registered trademark and COURT TV ONLINE is a service mark of the Courtroom Television Network.