Under no circumstances did they ‘have to hand it to him.’ That’s the lesson CBS News seemed incapable of comprehending during this past weekend’s Sunday Morning when veteran journalist Ted Koppel led off the show’s programming with a story about Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s brother, which featured a chat where they touted how the terrorist and murderer may have been right about somethings. They also hinted that his nearly two decades of terror was the only way that people could look back on his warnings about technology.
The main crux of the story was about the journey David Kaczynski had under taken since 1997 to try to make amends with his brother’s victims. “David began contacting family members of those killed and injured by his brother's bombs to apologize. Most did not engage, but Gary Wright did,” Koppel noted.
Throughout the story, Koppel marveled at Ted Kaczynski’s writings and his own reflections of his reign of terror:
KOPPEL: Do you remember what he wrote as to his motivation for using the violence?
D. KACZYNSKI: Yeah. He said it was to take revenge against society.
KOPPEL: More than that. More than that, he says, “if we had never done anything violent and had submitted the present writings to a publisher, they probably would not have been accepted. In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we've had to kill people.” Wow.
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