Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans

By 1920, Shaw's family had moved from Kentwood to New Orleans, where he spent much of his youth.

Shaw graduated from Warren Easton High School in New Orleans in 1928.

Shaw worked for Western Union in New Orleans before the company later transferred him to New York City.

Western Union transferred Shaw from New Orleans to New York City in 1935.

Lee Harvey Oswald was born in New Orleans on October 18, 1939, two months after the death of his father.

Marguerite Oswald moved with young Lee to a rented home on Congress Street after renting out the family property on Alvar Street.

Marguerite Oswald purchased a modest frame house on Bartholomew Street, where the family lived while she attempted to support her children.

Oswald entered the Bethlehem Children's Home on December 26, 1942, and remained there for about thirteen months.

After his Army discharge, Shaw returned to New Orleans and resumed his civilian career.

Shaw became managing director of the developing International Trade Mart in New Orleans after returning from military service.

Under Shaw's management, the International Trade Mart opened its first location in 1948.

At the International Trade Mart, Shaw helped expand commercial relationships between New Orleans and Latin American companies.

Oswald enrolled in the eighth grade at Beauregard Junior High School on January 13, 1954.

Marguerite took Lee back to New Orleans before January 10, 1954, without first obtaining formal permission from the New York court.

The New York juvenile court dismissed Lee's truancy case on March 11, 1954, after he had returned to New Orleans.

Lee entered ninth grade at Beauregard Junior High School and earned mediocre but generally acceptable marks.

Achievement testing showed Lee performing well in reading and vocabulary but poorly in mathematics during ninth grade.

On a school personal-history form, Lee listed military service among his future plans and stated that he had no close school friends.

Lee entered tenth grade at Warren Easton High School in the fall of 1955 but remained there only about a month.

Lee presented Warren Easton High School with a withdrawal note he had written himself and signed using his mother's name.

Soon after his sixteenth birthday, Oswald tried unsuccessfully to enlist in the Marines using a false age affidavit.

Lee began work as a messenger for Gerald F. Tujague, Inc., earning about $130 per month.

Lee briefly belonged to the Civil Air Patrol while living in New Orleans during his teenage years.

Lee worked mainly Saturdays for about ten weeks at the Dolly Shoe Company, where his employer remembered him as a stockboy.

Shaw helped secure financing for the major International Trade Mart building project in New Orleans.

Shaw worked to attract tenants needed for the planned International Trade Mart building.

Lee worked briefly as an office boy for J. R. Michels, Inc., before taking messenger work at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory.

Lee worked for several months as a messenger at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory before moving back to Fort Worth.

Oswald booked passage from New Orleans to Le Havre aboard the freighter SS Marion Lykes on September 17, 1959.

Before sailing to Europe, Lee registered at the Liberty Hotel in New Orleans on the evening of September 17.

The SS Marion Lykes sailed from New Orleans early on September 20, 1959, carrying Oswald as one of four passengers.

Shaw helped advance development of the thirty-three-story International Trade Mart Building as part of his long business career.

Arcacha Smith opened an office in the Balter Building at 403 Camp Street, Room 207. This was the building where anti-Castro activist and accused JFK assassination conspirator Guy Banister had had his office until July 1960..

Arcacha Smith established the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front in New Orleans as part of organized anti-Castro exile activity.

Shaw participated in preservation work involving the historic Audubon Cottages on Dauphine Street in the French Quarter.

Shaw supported restoration of the historic Spanish Stables complex on Governor Nicholls Street in New Orleans.

The Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front was absorbed by the Cuban Revolutionary Council, and Arcacha moved the office to 544 Camp Street for several months..

The Cuban Revolutionary Council delegation headed by Arcacha Smith operated for a period from offices associated with 544 Camp Street.

The Interpen group of experienced soldiers are involved in training members of the anti-Castro groups funded by the CIA in Florida in the early 1960s..

Arcacha Smith served as the Cuban Revolutionary Council's New Orleans delegate while exile organizations prepared political and military opposition to Castro.

Hemming was a leader of Interpen, or Intercontinental Penetration Force, a group of anti-Castro guerrillas who trained at No Name Key in the early 1960.

The Interpen group of experienced soldiers are involved in training members of the anti-Castro groups funded by the CIA in Florida in the early 1960s...

When Castro proved to be a Communist, and subjected some Americans to firing squads, most Americans "switched sides" and this included Gerry Patrick Hemming, who, in 1961, established Interpen as a means to attack and weaken the Castro regime

Miami headquarters removed Arcacha Smith from his Cuban Revolutionary Council post, and the New Orleans delegation later moved from the Camp Street office.

The FBI's New York office was advised that Oswald had contacted the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and claimed to have distributed its literature in Dallas.

Lee left Dallas by bus for New Orleans after failing to secure new employment in the Dallas area.

After reaching New Orleans, Lee stayed temporarily with his aunt Lillian Murret while searching for work.

Oswald registered with the Louisiana Department of Labor on April 26, 1963, seeking work in photography, shipping, or darkroom occupations.

During his return to New Orleans, Lee visited the cemetery where his father was buried and searched for surviving paternal relatives.

Paine invited Marina Oswald and her daughter to stay at her Irving home while Lee Oswald went to New Orleans seeking employment.

Marina and her child lived with Paine for a little over two weeks while Oswald sought work in New Orleans.

Lee applied to William B. Reily Company and listed two apparently fictitious references, Robert Hidell and J. Evans.

Paine drove Marina Oswald and her daughter from Texas toward New Orleans after Lee Oswald reported that he had found work there.

Lee began work at the Reily coffee company at 640 Magazine Street, earning $1.50 per hour.

Marina joins Oswald at 4905 Magazine Street..

The Fair Play for Cuba Committee replied that a New Orleans chapter would need more participants before a formal charter could be issued.

Oswald applied for membership in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee after obtaining literature from the organization's national office.

Oswald wrote the Fair Play for Cuba Committee requesting authority to create a New Orleans chapter and offered to rent a small office at his own expense.

Paine paid the travel and related expenses when she transported Marina Oswald and her child to rejoin Lee Oswald in New Orleans.

Paine stayed with the Oswald family during part of her May trip to New Orleans before returning to Texas.

Oswald distributed Hands Off Cuba literature near the USS Wasp at the Dumaine Street wharf, one of his earliest documented public FPCC activities in New Orleans.

Oswald applied for a new United States passport while planning foreign travel that eventually developed into his September journey toward Mexico City and a hoped-for visit to Cuba.

Using the name Lee Osborne, Oswald ordered Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets, applications, and membership cards for a proposed New Orleans chapter.

Using the name Lee Osborne, Oswald ordered handbills, applications, and membership cards for the New Orleans Fair Play for Cuba Committee chapter he was attempting to create.

Ruby traveled to New Orleans in June 1963 and recruited the stripper known as Jada to become a featured performer at the Carousel Club.

Paine and Marina Oswald corresponded while the Oswalds lived in New Orleans, discussing Marina's family circumstances and marital difficulties.

Oswald visited Carlos Bringuier's store on August 5, 1963, and presented himself as willing to assist anti-Castro Cuban activities.

On August 5 and 6, according to Carlos Bringuier, Oswald visited him at a store he owned in New Orleans, Bringuier was the New Orleans delegate for the anti-Castro Cuban Student Directorate..

Oswalds activities in New Orleans in mid-1963 were investigated by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison during his prosecution of Clay Shaw in 1969..

Oswald told Bringuier that his Marine experience included guerrilla-warfare training and offered to help train Cubans opposed to Castro.

Bringuier later testified that Oswald entered his store offering to train or assist Cubans fighting Fidel Castro.

Bringuier received Oswald's Marine guidebook when Oswald returned after their initial discussion of anti-Castro activity.

Oswald returned to Bringuier's store and left his Marine guidebook after discussing possible assistance to opponents of Fidel Castro.

Police arrested Bringuier and other Cuban exiles along with Oswald after the street confrontation.

A confrontation developed when Carlos Bringuier and other anti-Castro Cubans encountered Oswald distributing pro-Castro literature.

Bringuier confronted Oswald over his pro-Castro leafleting, leading to a disturbance that brought New Orleans police to the scene.

Oswald distributed Fair Play for Cuba Committee literature in downtown New Orleans, bringing his pro-Castro activity into direct contact with anti-Castro Cuban exiles.

New Orleans police arrested Oswald after the confrontation surrounding his Fair Play for Cuba Committee leafleting.

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

Bringuier encountered Oswald publicly distributing Fair Play for Cuba Committee material only days after Oswald had offered help to anti-Castro activists.

At Oswald's request, FBI agent John Quigley interviewed him in jail about his background and Fair Play for Cuba Committee activities.

During the FBI interview, Oswald falsely described a larger New Orleans FPCC membership and referred to the fictitious A. J. Hidell as its president.

Charges against Bringuier and the other Cuban exiles were dismissed while Oswald pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace.

Oswald pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace on August 12, 1963, and paid a ten-dollar fine.

Oswald pleaded guilty to the disturbing-the-peace charge arising from the August 9 confrontation and paid a ten-dollar fine.

After further Oswald leafleting, Bringuier sent an associate to Oswald's home posing as a Castro sympathizer in an attempt to learn more about his activities.

Oswald again distributed Fair Play for Cuba literature on August 16, 1963, this time outside the International Trade Mart.

Oswald distributed Fair Play for Cuba Committee literature outside the International Trade Mart with hired assistance.

Local television news filmed Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba Committee leafleting, giving his pro-Castro campaign wider public exposure.

WDSU broadcast a shortened version of Stuckey's Oswald interview on Latin Listening Post.

Stuckey recorded a longer interview with Oswald about the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and Cuban political issues.

Bringuier's information helped William Stuckey locate Oswald for a radio interview about the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

Broadcaster William Stuckey recorded a radio interview with Oswald on August 17, 1963, concerning the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

William Stuckey recorded an interview in which Oswald discussed the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and presented himself as its New Orleans spokesman.

After seeking to air more of the Oswald interview, Stuckey helped develop the idea of a debate between Oswald and a local anti-Castro opponent.

Bringuier debated Oswald on WDSU's Conversation Carte Blanche program about Castro, communism, and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

After the WDSU debate, Bringuier issued a press release urging citizens to seek a congressional investigation of Oswald.

During the WDSU debate, Oswald was confronted publicly with his years in the Soviet Union, weakening his effort to present the FPCC as a local political movement.

Oswald debated Carlos Bringuier and Edward Butler on WDSU's Conversation Carte Blanche program on August 21, 1963.

Stuckey arranged the WDSU debate that placed Oswald opposite Carlos Bringuier and Edward Butler.

Oswald debated Carlos Bringuier and Edward Butler on WDSU, defending the Castro government and his Fair Play for Cuba Committee activity.

Stuckey told the FBI about statements Oswald had made concerning his years in the Soviet Union and his Fair Play for Cuba activities.

Bringuier served as the New Orleans delegate of the anti-Castro Cuban Student Directorate while operating his clothing store on Decatur Street.

Journalist Bill Stuckey arranged a WDSU debate between Carlos Bringuier and Lee Harvey Oswald, during which Oswald was confronted about his previous residence in the Soviet Union.

Journalist Bill Stuckey arranged a WDSU debate between Carlos Bringuier and Lee Harvey Oswald, during which Oswald was confronted about his previous residence in the Soviet Union.

Stuckey had been seeking a Fair Play for Cuba Committee representative for his Latin Listening Post radio program before learning about Oswald.

Journalist Bill Stuckey arranged a WDSU debate between Carlos Bringuier and Lee Harvey Oswald, during which Oswald was confronted about his previous residence in the Soviet Union.

Journalist Bill Stuckey arranged a WDSU debate between Carlos Bringuier and Lee Harvey Oswald, during which Oswald was confronted about his previous residence in the Soviet Union.

FBI records show DeBruey contacted a confidential Cuban source while the New Orleans office continued investigating Fair Play for Cuba Committee activity.

The Mexican consulate in New Orleans issued Oswald a tourist card on September 17, 1963, for travel to Mexico City.

Oswald applied for a Mexican tourist card as he prepared a trip that he hoped would enable travel through Cuba to the Soviet Union.

Paine arrived in New Orleans on September 20 to visit Marina and prepare for Marina and her child to return with her to Texas.

A New Orleans FBI communication identified DeBruey as an agent contacting Cuban sources during the continuing investigation of Oswald and the FPCC.

The Warren Commission reconstruction places Oswald on the afternoon Continental Trailways service from New Orleans toward Houston.

Oswald left New Orleans by bus for Mexico, carrying documents intended to support his efforts to obtain Cuban and Soviet travel permission.

Oswald left New Orleans by bus on September 25, 1963, beginning his journey toward Mexico City.

Oswald tells Mrs. Twiford that he belongs to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee while trying to arrange a meeting with her husband.

After cashing the unemployment check, Oswald has about $200 available for his trip through Mexico.

Oswald cashes his unemployment check at a store near Magazine Street, increasing the funds available for his journey.

Oswald collects a $33 Texas unemployment compensation check from his New Orleans post office box before beginning his Mexico trip.

Oswald tells fellow passengers that he is secretary of the New Orleans branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

Oswald sought a Cuban transit visa and represented his Fair Play for Cuba Committee activity as evidence that he was friendly to the Cuban Revolution.

Oswald presents his Fair Play for Cuba Committee activity as evidence that Cuban officials should regard him as friendly to the revolution.

Warren DeBruey concludes for the FBI that Oswald is sole member of the FPC Committee in New Orleans.

Warren DeBruey concludes for the FBI that Oswald is sole member of the FPC Committee in New Orleans.

Warren DeBruey discovers Oswald has been using an alias, AJ Hidell.

Paine's station wagon carried the Oswald family's possessions from New Orleans to Texas when Marina returned to live in Irving.

Paine testified that she did not know a rifle was among the Oswald possessions stored in her garage after the move from New Orleans.

DeBruey authored an FBI report on the Fair Play for Cuba Committee's New Orleans activity after Oswald had left the city.

DeBruey's report stated that Cuban sources would be monitored for signs of renewed FPCC activity following Oswald's departure from New Orleans.

James Patrick Hosty, Jr requests the FBI Oswald file from New Orleans, established Oswald is living in Dallas.

CIA counterintelligence liaison logged an FBI submission describing Oswald's New Orleans political activity and the Hidell identity used in FPCC material.

FBI correspondence transferred responsibility for the Marina Oswald case from New Orleans to Dallas, where Hosty was already handling related inquiries.

FBI correspondence changed the office of origin for the Lee Harvey Oswald investigation from New Orleans to Dallas.

James Patrick Hosty, Jr receives the New Orleans FBI files & papers on Oswald.

The FBI report on Oswald's New Orleans FPCC activity reached a CIA counterintelligence special-investigations office on the day Kennedy was assassinated.

Fritz questioned Oswald about his political beliefs, Fair Play for Cuba Committee activity, and support for the Cuban Revolution.

During the Oswald press conference, Ruby joined reporters in correcting District Attorney Henry Wade when Wade mistakenly referred to the "Free Cuba Committee."

At Oswald's press appearance, Ruby corrected District Attorney Henry Wade when Wade mistakenly referred to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee as the Free Cuba Committee.

Fritz questioned Oswald about communism and Marxism; Oswald described his political views and discussed his Fair Play for Cuba position.

Fritz asked whether Oswald was a Communist; Oswald described himself instead as a Marxist and discussed his Fair Play for Cuba views.

David Ferrie is turned him over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which interviewed Ferrie and Martin on November 25.

Nevertheless, the FBI interviewed Ferrie twice about Martins allegations.

The FBI also interviewed about twenty other persons in connection with the allegations, said that it was unable to develop a substantial case against Ferrie, and released him with an apology.

Jack Martin told the FBI that Ferrie might have hypnotized Oswald into assassinating Kennedy.

The FBI considered Martin unreliable.

He claims that Ferrie knew Oswald from their days in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol, and that Ferrie might have taught Oswald how to use a rifle with a telescopic sight.

Jack Martin tells authorities and reporters that anti-Castro activist David Ferrie had been involved in the assassination.

Martin also claimed that Ferrie drove to Texas on the day of Kennedys assassination, to serve as a getaway pilot for the assassins.

He claims that Ferrie knew Oswald from their days in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol, and that Ferrie might have taught Oswald how to use a rifle with a telescopic sight.

Jack Martin tells authorities and reporters that anti-Castro activist David Ferrie had been involved in the assassination.

Martin also claimed that Ferrie drove to Texas on the day of Kennedys assassination, to serve as a getaway pilot for the assassins.

Because of the nature of what was done there, Office of Security files were the most closely guarded in the Agency. It is significant that Angleton-s CI/SIG group had access to these files.

It is also significant that the Office of Security also had a file on Oswald, and was running an operation against the FPCC at the time Oswald was attaching himself that organization..

The Office of Security-s primary role was to protect the CIA from harm. This involves monitoring the CIA-s own employees and assets to ensure that no one leaks data about the CIA, or betrays the CIA in any way.

It is also significant that the Office of Security also had a file on Oswald, and was running an operation against the FPCC at the time Oswald was attaching himself that organization...

The Commission concluded that Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba Committee contacts were not shown to be related to the assassination of President Kennedy.

Under Warren's chairmanship, the Commission examined Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba Committee activities and his attempt to create a New Orleans chapter.

The Commission reviewed information on undercover Cuban activity in New Orleans and reported that federal information revealed no anti-Castro group knowledge of Oswald before the assassination.

CIA counterintelligence reviewed Oswald's prior Soviet defection, Mexico City contacts, and Fair Play for Cuba Committee activity during post-assassination inquiries.

Adrian Thomas Alba was listed in Warren Commission Appendix 5 as acquaintance of oswald in new orleans; testimony was presented to the Commission in Vol. X, p. 219.

Vance Blalock was listed in Warren Commission Appendix 5 as observed oswald in new orleans; testimony was presented to the Commission in Vol. X, p. 81.

John Corporon was listed in Warren Commission Appendix 5 as official of new orleans radio station; testimony was presented to the Commission in Vol. XI, p. 471.

Robert J. Creel was listed in Warren Commission Appendix 5 as employee, louisiana department of labor, new orleans; testimony was presented to the Commission in Vol. XI, p. 477.

Shaw retired from the International Trade Mart in 1965 after years as one of its leading administrators.

CIA monitors and responds to Jim Garrison's New Orleans investigation.

In the autumn of 1966, Garrison began to re-examine the Kennedy assassination.

Jim Garrison resumed his Kennedy assassination investigation in November 1966, eventually directing attention toward Clay Shaw.

Garrison first interviewed Shaw in connection with the renewed assassination investigation in December 1966.

David Ferrie, then Garrisons chief suspect, is found dead in his apartment from a Berry Aneurysm. Garrison suspected that Ferrie had been murdered despite the coroners report that his death was due to natural causes. According to Garrison, the day news of the investigation broke, Ferrie had called his aide Lou Ivon and warned that "Im a dead man"

David Ferrie, then Garrisons chief suspect, is found dead in his apartment from a Berry Aneurysm. Garrison suspected that Ferrie had been murdered despite the coroners report that his death was due to natural causes. According to Garrison, the day news of the investigation broke, Ferrie had called his aide Lou Ivon and warned that "Im a dead man"

Louisiana presented four witnesses at Shaw's preliminary hearing as prosecutors attempted to establish probable cause for the assassination conspiracy charge.

A three-judge state panel began Shaw's preliminary hearing on March 14, 1967, to determine whether probable cause supported the conspiracy charge.

At the preliminary hearing, Perry Russo testified that Shaw, Oswald, and Ferrie had participated in a discussion about killing President Kennedy.

Vernon Bundy testified at Shaw's preliminary hearing that he had seen Shaw conversing with Oswald near Lake Pontchartrain.

The Orleans Parish grand jury indicted Shaw for conspiracy to murder President Kennedy on March 22, 1967.

The three-judge panel ruled that sufficient evidence had been presented to continue the conspiracy prosecution against Shaw.

Louisiana prosecutors moved on August 1, 1967, to have a trial date selected in the case against Shaw.

On September 27, 1967, Shaw requested a continuance or a change of venue because of concerns surrounding the prosecution.

CIA monitors and responds to Jim Garrison's New Orleans investigation.

Garrison's assassination investigation revisited Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba activity, 544 Camp Street associations, and contacts with New Orleans anti-Castro circles.

After a hearing on Shaw's request, the state court continued the conspiracy case until February 1968.

Shaw formally sought a change of venue on February 19, 1968, citing the extensive publicity surrounding the case.

The trial court conducted an extensive evidentiary hearing on Shaw's request to move the conspiracy trial away from New Orleans.

The Criminal District Court denied Shaw's change-of-venue motion on April 4, 1968.

Shaw filed a federal lawsuit on May 27, 1968, seeking to stop the state conspiracy prosecution.

A temporary federal restraining order was issued on May 28, 1968, while Shaw's request to halt the state prosecution was considered.

A three-judge federal court considered Shaw's constitutional challenges to the pending state conspiracy prosecution in 1968.

New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison began an investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy in the fall of 1966, after receiving several tips from Jack Martin that a man named David Ferrie may have been involved in the assassination..

New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison began an investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy in the fall of 1966, after receiving several tips from Jack Martin that a man named David Ferrie may have been involved in the assassination..

New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison began an investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy in the fall of 1966, after receiving several tips from Jack Martin that a man named David Ferrie may have been involved in the assassination..

CIA monitors and responds to Jim Garrison's New Orleans investigation.

On March 3, 1969, Garrison signed an information charging Shaw with perjury based on testimony Shaw had given during the conspiracy trial.

The end result of Garrisons investigation was the arrest and trial of New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw in 1969..

The end result of Garrisons investigation was the arrest and trial of New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw in 1969..

During the Clay Shaw prosecution, Garrison's office presented and investigated material concerning Oswald's New Orleans political activity and alleged anti-Castro connections.

The appellate record later described Shaw's conspiracy prosecution as a forty-day trial culminating in his March 1969 acquittal.

The end result of Garrisons investigation was the arrest and trial of New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw in 1969..

On the scheduled date of his perjury trial, Shaw sought a federal restraining order to stop Garrison from proceeding with the prosecution.

A federal district court permanently barred Garrison's office from continuing the pending perjury prosecution against Shaw on May 27, 1971.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the injunction protecting Shaw from further prosecution on the perjury charge.

The committee took Bringuier's deposition and compared his account of Oswald's 1963 New Orleans contacts with Warren Commission evidence.

Bringuier gave a deposition to the House Select Committee on Assassinations concerning Oswald's New Orleans contacts and anti-Castro Cuban activity.

The committee conducted interviews and depositions concerning anti-Castro Cuban networks that had operated in New Orleans, Miami, and elsewhere.