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Children recall father’s role in historic Cuban Missile CrisisBy TARA E. BUCK News-Post StaffBRADDOCK HEIGHTS — In great historical moments, there are often people working behind the seenes.That's true of the late Arthur C.Lundahl. who told President John F Kennedy in October 1962 that yes. there were Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, and that he was sure of that (actMr. Lundahl s children. Robert Lundahl of Braddock Heights and Ann Lundahl. of Thurmont said their father was essentially the first to warn Mr. Kennedy that the Soviets were pointing their weapons at major U S cities. The next 13 days, known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, were arguably the closest the country has ever come to the brink of nuclear annihilation.Thirteen Days is the title of a recently-released movie, which indudes Mr. Lundahl s part in historyHis 1962 work with the National Photographic Intelligence Center(NPIO of the CIA a division he ami Ann Lundahl hold a photograph of their father,built from a small group of photo Arthur C. Lundahl, und a model of a U-Z spy plane that providedthe photographs Mr. Lundahl used to detect Soviet missiles inSuff photn b Bill Grwti(Continued on Page A-4)Cnhaka 1MZ
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