Uss Greeneville In the News
View Second Of Three Previews Of WJHL Sub Program
The second of three short previews of an hour-long WJHL-TV documentary on the U.S.S. Greeneville is scheduled to be broadcast at 6 p.m. tonight.
The first preview, a 3-minute segment on the nuclear fast-attack submarine named for this community, was broadcast by 11 Connects WJHL-TV (CBS) at 11 p.m. Sunday.
The third preview is scheduled to be aired at 11 p.m. on Thursday.
The first preview will be available today on GreenevilleSun.com, the Web site of The Greeneville Sun.
The other two previews will be posted on GreenevilleSun.com after they have been broadcast, a Sun spokesman said today.
The full-length documentary itself, titled "The U.S.S. Greeneville Rising," is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 4.
As explained in a frontpage article in the Sun on Saturday, Feb. 6, the newspaper is working closely with WJHL on the hourlong documentary, which is designed to update Northeast Tennesseans about the Greeneville.
The Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine, which is homeported at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was named for this community in late 1989 after an intensive grassroots effort involving not only Greeneville and Greene County but Northeast Tennessee as a whole, and much of the rest of the state.
The major documentary on March 4 will present extensive footage shot by a WJHL team that visited the Greeneville in January The team members - 11 Connects news anchor Josh Smith and digital journalist Phillip Murrell - were allowed by the U.S. Navy to go to sea with the Greeneville for several days and were given unprecedented photographic access to the submarine.
They were accompanied by Dale Long, director of printing and distribution for The Greeneville Sun and president of U.S.S. Greeneville Inc., the submarine's locally-based support group.
The submarine is currently training in preparation for its next deployment, which is scheduled for next fall.