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Buckley Crist Jr. was almost the Unabomber’s first victim — but he was too smart for him.
Crist’s brush with possible injury or death happened on May 25, 1978 when a passerby found a package that had a shipping label and an address on it — but had not yet been mailed — in a parking lot at the University of Illinois’ Chicago Circle campus.
The bystander returned the package to the person listed as the sender: Northwestern University engineering professor Buckley Crist Jr.
The package turned out to be the first bomb in former mathematics professor-turned-homicidal hermit Ted Kaczynski’s nearly 18-year reign of terror.
But Crist was suspicious and didn’t open it, he told The Post Saturday.
Kaczynski’s body was discovered in his cell Saturday morning, officials said.
