“Oh, the humanity!” Thus goes one of history’s most famously quoted radio broadcasts of all time, uttered by radio journalist Herbert Morrison, as he was giving a real-time eyewitness narration of the Hindenburg disaster, a catastrophic fire that destroyed the Nazi German zeppelin LZ 129 ( (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129) Hindenburg. That sentence, as quoted, is shortened and oversimplified. Courtesy of Genius, here’s a more complete excerpt that conveys a better sense of the mental and emotional trauma that Mr Morrison was experiencing:
