19951776 Club
The Post runs the Unabomber's 35,000 words; Reno hopes a reader knows the voice
An eight-page insert, split with the New York Times, gambles that someone will recognize the writer before he mails another bomb.
For seventeen years a bomber had mailed and planted devices aimed at scientists, executives, and academics tied to modern technology, killing three people and wounding many more. In June 1995 he offered a trade: publish his 35,000-word essay, Industrial Society and Its Future, and the killing would stop. On September 19, 1995, The Washington Post ran the full text in a special eight-page supplement, splitting the printing costs with The New York Times. Attorney General Janet Reno had authorized the deal. The hope was that a reader who knew the writer's voice would recognize it…
