MANHUNT: UNABOMBER. Who is watching Michigan grad Ted Kaczynski vs Penn State grad

[ChiTownLion]

MANHUNT: UNABOMBER. Who is watching Michigan grad Ted Kaczynski vs Penn State grad James Fitzgerald?

America's most notorious domestic terrorist. You can watch it here on Discovery.com:

• https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/manhunt-unabomber/

Edit: Ted Kaczynski, not Timothy McVeigh.

 

[Woodpecker]

Minor quibble: I don't think McVeigh went to Michigan. Do you mean Ted Kaczynski?

 

[AdvanSix]

McVeigh a UM grad? Wanna make a wager on that?

Ted Kaczynski went to Harvard undergrad and got his PhD at UM. Pretty pathetic troll attempt.

 

[Frabjous]

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/173/576/Wat8.jpg?1315930535

 

[Thus Spoke Mainer]

Let's not forget UM med school grad, H.H.Holmes.

 

[ChiTownLion]

Minor quibble: I don't think McVeigh went to Michigan. Do you mean Ted Kaczynski?

Fixed.

It's been 43 years since Ted Kaczynski first stepped onto the University of Michigan campus.

Since then, he's spent 18 of those 43 years - from 1978 to 1995 -mailing bombs. He's killed three people, wounded 29 and received four life sentences without parole.

But he still describes his five years at the University as among the worst in his life.

"My memories of the University of Michigan are NOT pleasant," he wrote me in a letter dated Jan. 16.

Attached to the letter, he included a hand-copied excerpt from his 1979 unpublished autobiography on extra-long legal paper.

"So I went to the U. of Michigan in the fall of 1962, and I spent five years there," he wrote. "These were the most miserable years of my life (except for the first year and the last year)."

When Kaczynski entered the University, he was a precocious, solitary mathematics student whose brilliance his undergraduate education at Harvard had not yet revealed. It was 1962. He was 20 years old. His name was still Ted Kaczynski.

By the time he'd left, it was 1967. He was 25 years old. He had earned a master's and doctorate in mathematics. And he'd developed an identity with a different name. He was the Unabomber.

https://www.michigandaily.com/content/he-came-ted-kaczynski-he-left-unabomber​

 

[BobPSU92]

Fitzgerald vs. kaczynski:

 

[pandaczar12]

Let us know if there are any scenes with Witvoet and company helping him stay one step ahead of the good guys.

 

[LaJolla Lion]

You are no better than those that mock PSU tying a school to a monster. Sad.

 

[MtNittany]

Witvoet probably has an autographed, un-exploded kazcynski package in his Man Cave/SCum shrine.

 

[ChiTownLion]

You are no better than those that mock PSU tying a school to a monster. Sad.

Not stopping until Desmond Howard retracts his message about PSU's culture producing JS.

Anyway, thoughts on the show?

 

[TheBigUglies]

I have been trying to keep up with it. Last night's episode didn't portray Fitz in a positive way. Seems like he was obsessed with catching this guy so much that it screwed up his marriage, stomped on coworkers, kind of did things he wasn't supposed to do in his job. Granted no one in the FBI was listening to him at the time and he had to prove it. He also messed with the hot llinguistics prof that opened his eyes to the style in which the manifesto was written.

The story intrigues me but how much has been dramatized for television. I cringe when Louis Freeh is mentioned.Then again, if it wasn't for Fitz's drive to catch this guy, and knowing Freeh was a failure. The Unabomber could still be on the loose.

 

[LaJolla Lion]

Not stopping until Desmond Howard retracts his message about PSU's culture producing JS.

Anyway, thoughts on the show?

Good show. Desmond is an idiot.

 

[gfour18]

MANHUNT: UNABOMBER. Who is watching Michigan grad Ted Kaczynski vs Penn State grad James Fitzgerald?

America's most notorious domestic terrorist. You can watch it here on Discovery.com:

• https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/manhunt-unabomber/

Edit: Ted Kaczynski, not Timothy McVeigh.

I thought for sure it would air on TNT.

 

[PSUQBKeeper]

Kaczynski actually sent one of his bombs to a professor at PSU....the prof had already moved on and the bomb was forwarded to another school.... it exploded on being opened and injured someone

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_a15834be-44d1-584e-b35f-c9a2bdd55df1.html

 

[ChiTownLion]

 

[rohrmd9]

Fitzgerald vs. kaczynski:

Our single shining moment from that game.

 

[royboy]

My brother graduated from UC-Berkeley and said he took an undergraduate math course where Kaczynski was the instructor. Said he seemed a little strange, but not greatly different from a few others in that field.

The mini-series was very well done.

 

[Keyser Soze 16801]

It was interesting how Freeh was portrayed given Clemente's involvement in creating the show

 

[ChiTownLion]

It was interesting how Freeh was portrayed given Clemente's involvement in creating the show

Ditto that. I mean, who knew Jim Clemente was the co-producer and worked alongside our guy Jim Fitzgerald all those years. Just wish there was a PSU reference in there somewhere. And even though Ted Kaczynski said his time at Michigan was the low point of his life, they portrayed Harvard as the source of his rage. Fitz did say they took some creative liberties, but still a pretty cool show. Clemente is apparently everywhere.

 

[BobPSU92]

Ted Kaczynski said his time at Michigan was the low point of his life

Maybe he isn't crazy after all.

 

[Ranger Dan]

My wife and I watched the show, and enjoyed it very much. I didn’t recall much from the trial, or even his bombings. One thing from the show that has me intrigued, is the comment about his cabin being mathematically perfect. What exactly makes it mathmatically perfect... is it the proportions, I guess?