 In the early briefing scene where Arthur Lundahl, director of the  CIAs National Photographic Interpretation Center, shows a map of  the missiles range, the town of Oxford, Miss., is one of the  targets. All other targets were major US Cities. This was not an  error. Its not clear whether the joke started with the Kennedys or  the CIA, but in any case President Kennedy was still smarting from  the previous months riots in Oxford, which put him at  cross