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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
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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
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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