Four CIA Assets Confront Oswald in a New Orleans Courtroom

They generated media exposure of the accused assassin three months before JFK was killed

On Aug. 9, 1963, a 23-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald was handing out leftist leaflets on busy Canal Street in New Orleans when four Cuban men confronted him, threw his pamphlets to the wind, and physically threatened him for publicly defending the communist government of Fidel Castro. Two passing policemen arrested all five men for disturbing the peace.

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