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Ted Kaczynski’s Early Life

Theodore Kaczynski was born in Chicago in 1942 to a working-class family of Polish ancestry. He was one of two children, along with younger brother David, who would later become involved in his older sibling’s arrest.

People who attended school with Ted noted that he was a “loner” who excelled academically.

After graduating early from Evergreen Park Community High School (he skipped 11th grade), Kaczynski was accepted at Harvard University on a full scholarship at the age of 16.

While at the Ivy League school, Kaczynski didn’t make many friends, but he continued to perform exceedingly well academically.

Ted Kaczynkski at Harvard.

However, it was during his time at Harvard that Kaczynski also participated in a controversial study led by psychologist Henry Murray.

In the experiment, subjects were asked to write an essay on their personal philosophies.

Later, while hooked up to electrodes to measure their physiological response, the study subjects