Thu Oct 22 · 6:30pm
The Wireless Operator: with Dr. David Tuch
David Tuch, a Brookline technology entrepreneur, tells the story behind his first book, The Wireless Operator, a biography of his cousin Harold Derber. Derber served as a wireless operator in the British navy, ran refugees and arms into Palestine after the war, struck a deal with Castro to ferry Cuban refugees in 1959 and later became a major marijuana trafficker. The talk begins at 7.