The thing with the Unabomber is that his activities were spread out over such a long time period that there will be a lot on him during the whole period. So he's not as good of an example. I'm of the opinion that if a major presidential assassination happened currently, it would be just as long of an article, if not longer.
It's really down to the coverage more than anything else and the amount of detail that the coverage goes into.
News organizations go out of their way to be snoopier nowadays (not that they weren't snoopy back in the day).
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