Biography
Charles A. Tuller was a former U.S. Commerce Department official from the Washington suburbs who reinvented himself as a self-styled revolutionary and led his teenage sons Bryce and Jonathan, with William White Graham, through a 1972 crime spree: a botched June bank robbery in Arlington, Virginia that left two men dead, and the October 29, 1972 hijacking of Eastern Air Lines Flight 486 from Houston to Havana, during which ticket agent Stanley Hubbard was killed. Cuba jailed the group on arrival rather than welcoming them; the Tullers surrendered to U.S. authorities in 1975 and were convicted, drawing long prison terms. The political character of the spree rested on Tuller's own revolutionary self-description.
