Launching of Guided Missile Cruiser USS Virginia (DLGN-38) Part 1

Description

This film shows the U.S. Navy band as it performed for the ceremony, people as they arrived for the ceremony, and John P. Diesel, President of Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, as he made a speech. It also shows John W. Warner of American Bicentennial, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, Deputy Commander for Nuclear Propulsion, and Honorable John William Middendorf II, Secretary of the Navy, as they gave their remarks. It includes a scene of Warner's wife as she broke a champagne bottle against guided missile cruiser USS Virginia (DLGN-38).

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities