The Newseum’s Newest Exhibit

It’s just 10-feet by 12-feet but the Newseum’s newest exhibit is considered by many as larger than life. The tiny structure that sits within the massive Washington museum once housed one of the nation’s most notorious criminals—-Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. The cabin is on public display for the first time in the new exhibit “G-Men and Journalists: Top News Stories of the FBI’s First Century,” which opens Friday at the Newseum, a museum about the news. For more than a decade the cabin, which once stood in a wooded area in Montana, has been sitting in an FBI evidence facility collecting … Continue reading

Unabomber Auction

How much would you pay to own an axe used by “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski? Actually, it wasn’t meant to be a rhetorical question. In fact, we will soon find out how much money that axe will fetch when it (along with a host of other personal items) goes up for auction to help pay restitution to Kaczynski’s victims. A U.S. federal judge has ordered the sale of the mail bomber’s property through an online auction. Items up for bid include journals, typewriters and books seized from Kaczynski’s Montana cabin. Proceeds from the sale will go toward a $15 million restitution … Continue reading