Unabomber Ted Kaczynski complained to a federal appeals court that an exhibit including his Montana cabin at the Newseum in D.C. harms the victims of his mail bombings.
In a three-page hand-scrawled letter, Kaczynski, wrote that he learned of the exhibit through an advertisement that states that the cabin was loaned to the Newseum by the FBI.
“This has relevance to the victims’ objection to publicity connected with the Unabom (sic) case,” he wrote from the “supermax” federal prison in Colorado. “I don’t think I need to say anything further; the Court can draw its own conclusions.”
Kaczynski said he gave the 10-foot by 12-foot Montana cabin to Scharlette Holdman, an investigator on his defense team. It was then seized by the federal government.
Kaczynski, once a mathematics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, has been trying to halt the auction of his journals, correspondence and manifesto.
The Newseum exhibition section about Kaczynski, A Mad Bomber and His Manifesto, focuses on the FBI’s 17-year search for the Unabomber, whose homemade bombs killed three people and injured 23 others. Despite an investigation that spanned eight states and involved approximately 500 agents, the FBI was making little progress until, in 1995, the Unabomber mailed a 35,000-word essay to The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Kaczynski’s brother recognized the manifesto and turned him in to authorities.
