TBO.com - TBO is Tampa Bay Online

Unabomber Protests Newseum Exhibit

ADVERTISEMENT

The Washington Post

Published: August 13, 2008

WASHINGTON - Ted Kaczynski, the convicted "Unabomber," is upset that his Montana cabin, where he was eventually captured, is part of a display at the Newseum.

In a handwritten letter to a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Kaczynski said he objected to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's loan of the 10-by-12-foot cabin as part of a large exhibition that looks at the FBI's first 100 years.

Kaczynski, who is imprisoned in a federal facility in Florence, Colo., said he learned of the cabin's use when he saw it in an advertisement for the Newseum in The Washington Post.
Newseum officials said they are not making any changes to "G-Men and Journalists: Top News Stories of the FBI's First Century." The exhibition opened in June and is on display for a year.

The Newseum, a museum about the history of news gathering, opened in April.

The section about Kaczynski is called "A Mad Bomber and His Manifesto" and details how the FBI used 500 agents over 17 years to search for him.

His homemade bombs killed three people and injured 23 others from 1978 to 1995. He was arrested in 1996 and was sentenced to life in prison.

Share this:

Loading Comments...

Email Print

ADVERTISEMENT