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Unabomber Protests Museum Display of his Cabin in Appeals Court Letter

Posted Aug 13, 2008, 07:36 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Convicted Unabomber Ted Kaczynski has written a letter to a federal appeals court protesting the display of his cabin in a news museum exhibit called "G-Men and Journalists."

The FBI had loaned the 10-by-12-foot cabin to the Newseum in Washington, D.C., the Washington Post reports. A video tour on the Newseum’s website invites Web users to “get a closer look at the life of a mad hermit.” Users can click on displayed items to learn how they tied in to the mail bombings that killed three people.

Susan Bennett, the museum's vice president for marketing and deputy director, told the Post that “the cabin had a definite media hook” and the Newseum does not… Continue reading...

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