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8Unabomber's bombs. Unfortunately for Kaczynski, the public relations coup also proved hisundoing. His brother recognized the style and themes from the essay he had received in 1971and reluctantly went to the FBI and turned his brother in. Revolutionary action, as Kaczynskihimself had warned, often has unintended and unwanted consequences.Personal HistoryTheodore Kaczynski was born in 1942, the first of two children of working-class Polishimmigrants. He was brilliant and socially awkward as a child and skipped two grades by the endof high school. In later writings and conversations he reported that promotion from fifth toseventh grade was a major cause of his lack of development of social skills, a problem thatremained with him for the rest of his life. He reported further that in high school he was treatedpoorly by his fellow students and that by the end of high school he was “definitely regarded as afreak by a large segment of the student body.” He describes a number of incidents in his juniorhigh and high school years, including a discussion of making a small pipe bomb in chemistry,which gained him some notoriety. He described himself as having “frustrated resentmenttowards school parents, and the student body” which often was given outlet through “snottybehavior in the classroom which often took a sarcastic or crudely humorous turn.”He entered Harvard at 16 on a scholarship and spent his four years in college as anacademically successful and socially isolated student. In his autobiography he described fantasiesduring college of living a primitive life and becoming “an agitator, rousing mobs to frenzies ofrevolutionary violence.” He also reported that during high school and college he would becomevery angry and hateful toward others and would indulge in fantasies of revenge. He said that hewas too fearful of getting caught to think about acting out the revenge and for that reason tooklittle comfort in the fantasies.