Every day we received telex messages and forwarded them to Mladá fronta
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Jaroslav Svoboda was born on 31 March 1938 in Říčany near Prague, where he lived his whole life. He doesn’t remember much about the war, but he has a distinct memory of the days of liberation, when he spent a night in one room with Soviet soldiers at his grandmother’s house. In 1946, he went to a Sokol summer camp in the border region in Šumava, where he experienced the displacement of the original German-speaking inhabitants. Already as a schoolboy he joined an amateur radio club, which predetermined his professional career. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University, where he also worked until recently. In 1968, thanks to his skills, he helped to transmit teletext messages from the transmitter in Tehov to the editorial office of Mladá fronta newspaper. In the late 1960s, he and his wife built a house, where he still was living in 2019.
