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Fair Play Leafleting Arrest

United States of America · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1963

Lee Harvey Oswald9 August 1963

New Orleans · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Police arrested Oswald on August 9, 1963, after a confrontation with Cuban exiles while he distributed Fair Play for Cuba leaflets.

Names involved

Lee Harvey Oswald

Provenance

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