Event Series: Unibomber mails pipe bomb to Michigan professor
Unibomber mails pipe bomb to Michigan professor
November 12, 2026
Later known as the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, mailed a pipe bomb to James V. McConnell of Ann Arbor on this day in 1985. Two people were injured when the package was opened three days later. McConnell, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, which Kaczynski attended in the mid-1960s, was standing nearby and was not hurt.