On this day, December 10, 1994, advertising executive Thomas J. Mosser was killed by a bomb mailed by the Unabomber.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Ted Kaczynski

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Bombings

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Later bombings

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In 1994, Burson-Marsteller executive Thomas J. Mosser was killed after opening a mail bomb sent to his home in New Jersey. In a letter to The New York Times, Kaczynski wrote he had sent the bomb because of Mosser's work repairing the public image of Exxon after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. This was followed by the 1995 murder of Gilbert Brent Murray, president of the timber industry lobbying group California Forestry Association, by a mail bomb addressed to previous president William Dennison, who had retired. Geneticist Phillip Sharp at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a threatening letter shortly afterwards.

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[PufPuf23]

1. Knew Gil Murray for 20 years.

Gil was the TA in the first forestry class took at Cal. Gil was later manager of Blodgett, the Cal School Forest.

Gil had taken a new job with the California Forestry Association, replacing Bill Dennison as ExDir, and the package was addressed to Dennison.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Wow. Thanks for writing. NT