Alexander Hamilton (SSBN 517) - Naval Cruise Book

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H gd' WCAX -TV Abef '-Q3-,P, 3 MT.MANsF1ELD TELEVISION, INC Channel CBS P. o. Box eos e BURLINGTON,'VERMONT 0 UNiversity 2j576l P d 15, o o o The Commandant First Naval District M95 Sum er Street Boston 10, Massachusetts Dear Sir: . , On Monday, July 1, 1963, I accepted an invitation for a one day press cruise on the fleet ballistic missile submarine, Alexander Hamilton, from New London. First, let me thank you for an extra- ordinary experience. All arrangements were consumated in a workmanlike fashion without hitches or delay. Our reception aboard the submarine could not have been improved on in spite of the fact that twenty-nine landlubbers breathing down the necks of a crew performing the exacting duties of handling a vessel of this size+1ntr1cacy could hardly have been helpful. Nevertheless, we were treated with the utmost courtesy and dispatch. I was so impressed with the ship and its mission as well as the very lucid explana- tion of the functioning of its various parts that I have made a half hour program of my experiences on this trip which is being tele- cast at 8:60 PM, Wednesday, July 17. In this program I will discuss not only those aspects of the ship which are open to unclassified treatment but also its mission and its impor- tance to t e free world. p ' Although I have been treated to similar tours by the Air Defense Com and and the Strategic Air Com and, I have never been so impressed by anything as I was by this trip on a polaris submarine incerely, STM:D QALQQQ