Profile: Tom Tyler

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Employee of University of California at Berkeley
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Tom Tyler was a participant or observer in the Text Size
following events:
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May 1, 1995 and After: ’Unabomber’ Sends Text Size
Professor Letter Asking Him to Read Manuscript
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The San Francisco Chronicle publishes an article about the Oklahoma Time
City bombing (see 8:35 a.m. - 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995) and the
lengthy spate of bombings attributed to the “Unabomber” (see May 25- period
26, 1978 and April 24, 1995). The first person quoted in the Chronicle
article is Tom Tyler, a social psychology professor at the University of
California at Berkeley. Unbeknownst to Tyler or the Chronicle, the Email Updates
Unabomber is Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, a former mathematics Receive
professor at Berkeley (see April 3, 1996). Tyler, who will later say he weekly email
was not at Berkeley when Kaczynski taught there, receives a letter updates
from the Unabomber shortly after the article is published. The letter is summarizing
addressed to Tyler, and identifies him as “head of the social what
 psychology group,” the same incorrect title he was given in the contributors
Chronicle. It contains a long manuscript written by the Unabomber have added to
(see April 24, 1995) and asks him to read it. “I said in the article that the History
the Oklahoma City bomber and the Unabomber were examples of Commons
people who had exaggerated feelings that the government was out to database
get them,” Tyler later recalls. “The Unabomber objected to that
characterization of him.” The letter asks Tyler to read his document,
which he had sent to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and
three other media outlets (see September 19, 1995). Tyler responds Donate
that he welcomes Kaczynski’s suggestion that revolution “need not be Developing
violent or sudden,” says that Kaczynski is not alone in feeling and
discontented with today’s society, and that “it is wrong to simply say maintaining
that people who are dissatisfied are in some way non-rational.” this site is very
However, Tyler disagrees with his argument that industrial- labor intensive.
technological society cannot be reformed. [Associated Press, If you find it
7/5/1995; Washington Post, 4/14/1996] useful, please
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