EL-MP16-68: MAMIE CHRISTENS FIRST ATOMIC SUBMARINE

EL-MP16-68 MAMIE CHRISTENS FIRST ATOMIC SUBMARINE
Grotten, Connecticut
January 21, 1954
Copyright: United States Information Agency (Public Domain)
1 reel 200' 5 minutes sound B&W
United States Information Service presents the christening of the USS Nautilus by Mamie Eisenhower, at Grotten, Connecticut. Also present were: John J. Hopkins, president of General Dynamics; Gov. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Connecticut; Eugene P. Wilkerson, skipper of Nautilus; Elivera Carlson Doud; Robert B. Anderson, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Adm. Robert Carney, Chief of Naval Operations; Lewis Strauss, Chairman U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; and Mrs. Eugene Wilkerson, matron of honor.