87 Years Ago Today: The Hindenburg Disaster Still Resonates

“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:

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