Lee Harvey Oswald got into a scuffle with three men while distributing flyers for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. He was arrested in New Orleans but released the next day. Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm declared martial law, then ordered armed government forces to raid Buddhist pagodas and arrest fourteen hundred monks. Washington Post publisher Philip Graham took his life, making Katharine Graham a widow at forty-seven and the twentieth century’s first female publisher of a major newspaper. And on August 28, at least 250,000 people gathered to attend the March on Washington for Jobs and
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