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One of the most provocative and enduring controversies to arise around Lee Harvey Oswald concerns a stamped address on a batch of political leaflets Oswald was handing out one day in New Orleans during the summer of 1963. Does this one item of tangible evidence link Oswald to a possible conspiracy?

The story begins on August 5, 1963, when Lee Harvey Oswald "visited a store managed by Carlos Bringuier, a Cuban refugee and avid opponent of Castro, and the New Orleans delegate of the Cuban student directorate. Oswald indicated an interest in joining the struggle against Castro. He told Bringuier that he had been a marine and was trained in guerrilla warfare, and that he was willing not only to train Cubans to fight Castro but also to join the fight himself. The next day Oswald returned to the store and left his 'Guidebook for Marines' for Bringuier."(1)

A few days later, a friend of Bringuier's saw Oswald passing out his pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets on Canal Street, not far from the store Bringuier managed. Bringuier and a couple of like-minded friends proceeded to the site of Oswald's mini-demonstration, and Bringuier was enraged to recognize Oswald as the wannabe anti-Castro activist of a few days before. Though no physical violence resulted, some heated words were uttered, a crowd gathered, and Oswald was arrested along with the three Cubans for disturbing the peace.(2)

Oswald didn't seem too fazed by the ordeal. "When I saw that was Oswald and he recognized me, he was also surprised, but just for a few seconds," Bringuier testified. "Immediately he smiled to me and he offered the hand to shake hands with me."(3)

While Oswald normally stamped either his home address or his post office box number on his handouts, some of the ones confiscated by the NOPD on this occasion had instead been stamped with the address, "544 CAMP ST."(4)

The FBI and the Warren Commission considered the possibility that Oswald might have indeed briefly rented such an office.(5) In a letter dated August 1, 1963, Oswald had written to Vincent T. Lee, head of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New York. In this letter, postmarked August 4, 1963, Oswald wrote: "In regards to my efforts to start a branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans . . . I rented an office as planned and was promptly closed 3 days later for some obsure [sic] reasons by the renters, they said something about remodeling, ect. [sic] I'm sure you understand after that I worked out of a post office box and by useing [sic] street demonstrations and some circular work have substained [sic] a great deal of interest but no new members. Through the efforts of some cuban-exial [sic] 'gusanos' a street demonstration [of Oswald's] was attacked and we were oficialy [sic] cautioned by the police."(6)

The FBI established that Oswald had not, in fact, rented an office at 544 Camp Street, and left it at that.(7)

In 1966, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison took a second look at the address. He noted that around the corner from 544 Camp Street, located in the same building, was 531 Lafayette Street, which in 1963 had housed the private detective agency of William Guy Banister.(8) In his memoirs, Garrison states flatly that 544 Camp Street was "the entrance to Banister's office."(9) He writes that "both entrances 544 Camp and 531 Lafayette led to the same place."(10)

moar: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/camp.htm

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