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Kennedy-era Pentagon Adviser Addresses History Students
Woodberry Forest School's fifth formers heard from Dr. Harald Malmgren on April 9, 2012. An Oxford graduate, Dr. Malmgren was a senior-level appointee under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, and has had a career in global trade negotiations.
Dr. Malmgren spoke on Monday about his work in the Pentagon during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which occurred fifty years ago this fall, offering these US History students a first-hand account of humanity's closest encounter with nuclear annihilation.
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