On this day November 15 1985, a University of Michigan research assistant was seriously injured after a package exploded in a computer science building on campus. The attack was later attributed to the Unabomber, who targeted universities and airlines throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. The incident shocked the academic community and deepened national concern over a string of bombings that had already spread fear across the country.
The explosion was one of several linked to the same...
