On August 9, 1963, New Orleans native Lee Harvey Oswald stood in front of the Ward Discount House at the corner of Canal and St. Charles streets distributing his Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets. The Fair Play for Cuba Committee was a pro-Castro organization that supported the Cuban Revolution against attacks by the United States Government. It was at this location where Oswald found himself in an altercation with the Cuban exile Carlos Bringuier. Just months prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in New Orleans for disturbing the peace.