Jan 22, 2007 10:36 pm US/Mountain
Government Wants To Auction Unabomber's Writings
by Rick Sallinger
DENVER (CBS4) ―
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Ted Kaczynski was arrested in 1998 after a 21-year reign of terror.
CBS
The government wants to auction off writings of the Unabomber to raise money to pay his victims for their suffering.
Ted Kaczynski, arrested in 1998, is serving his life sentence in Colorado and opposes the auction, saying it would violate his First Amendment rights.
The writings were recovered from the Montana shack where he was arrested after a 21-year reign of terror.
"Sure I think there's a lot of value in there, personally I think they should be sold," said Gary Wright, who suffered nerve damage from a bomb in a parking lot in Salt Lake City.
Some of the other victims are opposed to the sale because they believe auctioning Unabomber documents would amount to a circus.
Kaczynski has continued his writings even behind bars at the Supermax prison in Florence.
In a series of more than a dozen letters in 1998 and 1999, Kaczynski wrote CBS4's Rick Sallinger about his secret life in Montana. He wrote about a hidden shack and how the FBI learned of it.
Among his victims was John Hauser, a University of Colorado professor.
"My arm had just been blown apart like that," Hauser said. "I was really at the wrong place at the wrong time."
Kaczynski said he would rather have his writings donated to the University of Michigan.
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