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To the San Francisco Examiner, we have waited until now
to announce ourselves because our earlier bombs
were embarrassingly ineffectual. The injuries they inflicted
were relatively minor. In order to influence people,
a terrorist group must show a certain
amount of success. When we finally realized
the amount of smokeless powder needed to blow up
anyone or anything was too large to be practical, we decided to take
a couple years off and learn something
about explosives and develop an effective bomb
to announce ourselves because our earlier bombs
were embarrassingly ineffectual. The injuries they inflicted
were relatively minor. In order to influence people,
a terrorist group must show a certain
amount of success. When we finally realized
the amount of smokeless powder needed to blow up
anyone or anything was too large to be practical, we decided to take
a couple years off and learn something
about explosives and develop an effective bomb
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To the San Francisco Examiner,
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we have waited until now
to announce ourselves
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because our earlier bombs
were embarrassingly ineffectual.
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The injuries they inflicted
were relatively minor.
00:00:12.178 --> 00:00:14.415
In order to influence people,
a terrorist group
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must show a certain
amount of success.
00:00:17.384 --> 00:00:20.153
When we finally realized
the amount of smokeless powder
00:00:20.186 --> 00:00:22.121
needed to blow up
anyone or anything
00:00:22.155 --> 00:00:23.856
was too large to be practical,
00:00:23.089 --> 00:00:25.858
we decided to take
a couple years off
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and learn something
about explosives
00:00:27.394 --> 00:00:29.396
and develop an effective bomb.
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Movie Summary
An exploration of Ted Kaczynski's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber.