page_title: USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619)
section_title: Operational history
hierarchical_section_title: USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) / Operational history
caption_attribution_description: English: President John F. Kennedy observes the firing of a Polaris missile by the USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) aboard the USS Observation Island (E-AG-154) off the coast of Florida, November 16, 1963.
context_page_description: USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) was a Lafayette-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, it was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States.
context_section_description: Following commissioning, Andrew Jackson sailed via the Panama Canal to the United States East Coast. On 1 October and 11 October 1963, during shakedown training out of Cape Canaveral, Florida, she successfully launched Polaris A-2 ballistic missiles; and, on 26 October 1963, she sent Polaris A-3X missiles into space in the first submerged launching of its type; and she repeated the feat on 11 November 1963. On 16 November 1963, six days before his assassination, President John F. Kennedy—embarked in the missile range instrumentation ship USS Observation Island—observed Andrew Jackson launch another Polaris A-2 ballistic missile from a point off Cape Canaveral and congratulated Commander Wilson and his crew for "impressive teamwork."
caption: President Kennedy watching USS Andrew Jackson launch a Polaris A-2 missile.
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