20 years ago, the Unabomber arrest and Ron Brown plane crash made a startling A1

April 3, 1996 was an unusually busy breaking-news day in The Washington Post newsroom. Just as the National staff was preparing to launch a major package of stories about the arrest that day of Ted Kaczynski -- the suspect in the Unabomber saga that the Post had been closely entwined with for months -- word came of a catastrophic and completely unrelated news event. A U.S. Air Force flight carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others had crashed on a mountaintop in Croatia, killing all ab...