/internal/media/dispatcher/32935/full"Hands Off Cuba!" handbill19638 15/16 × 5 15/16 in. (22.7 × 15.1 cm)PaperThe Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Collection2013.088.00030One “Hands Off Cuba!” 1963 handbill designed by Lee Harvey Oswald. The flyer is printed in black letters on yellow paper. It says:
Hands Off Cuba!
Join the Fair Play for Cuba Committee
New Orleans Charter Member Branch
Free Literature, Lectures
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Everyone Welcome!Documents6510815.081280162622.701295402638203Document0E-10“Hands Off Cuba!” handbill designed by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. The flyer is printed in black letters on yellow paper.
Oswald was arrested in New Orleans on August 9, 1963, for disturbing the peace while handing out these pro-Castro leaflets.
CubaNew OrleansOswald, Lee HarveyFair Play for Cuba CommitteeNew OrleansThe Museum's collection also includes a home movie shot in New Orleans in 1963 that shows Lee Harvey Oswald distributing these flyers and being arrested after an altercation with three men. The Martin film is available online - please see 2007.028.0001. The collection also includes a New Orleans Police Department booking photograph taken after Oswald's arrest; please see 2013.102.0001. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of CollectionsOn May 29, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald - using the alias Lee Osborne - ordered one thousand of these handbills from the Jones Printing Company on Girod Street in New Orleans. The total cost was $9.89. - Stephen Fagin, Curator