My uncle was at MIT, one of the great professors. 51 years whatever… three degrees in nuclear, chemical and math. Kaczynski was one of his students? Do you know who that is? There is very little difference between a mad man and a genius.

“I said, ‘What kind of a student was he, Uncle John?’ Dr. John Trump. He said, ‘What kind of a student? ‘Man,’ he said, ‘seriously good … He’d go around correcting everybody.’ But it didn’t work out too well for him.”

John Trump died in 1985, a decade before Kaczynski was linked to the Unabomber attacks. The alleged conversation would had to have occurred years before the public knew Kaczynski was even responsible for the bombings, which killed three people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995. Kaczynski was arrested by the FBI in April 1996. He pleaded guilty in January 1998.