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Aircraft Carrier Is Named For Pres. Roosevelt

Reel Number: 221067-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 14:30:49

TC Ends: 14:32:21

Duration: 00:01:32

Aircraft Carrier Is Named For Pres. Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt arrives wearing black at dedication ceremony for new aircraft carrier ‘Franklin D. Roosevelt’. VIPs inc. Presidential Advisor Bernard Barouk ?, Fleet Admiral King, & Army Chief of Staff Marshall present - onto podium. MS Eleanor Roosevelt makes speech in front of vars mics on behalf of late husband. Wife of Admiral Towers naming carrier - has trouble smashing champagne bottle. Water pours into dry dock; MS carrier ready to set sail for Pacific War. WWII.

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