{"id":36138,"date":"2024-05-07T02:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/87-years-ago-today-the-hindenburg-disaster-still-resonates\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T02:59:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:59:02","slug":"87-years-ago-today-the-hindenburg-disaster-still-resonates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=36138","title":{"rendered":"87 Years Ago Today: The Hindenburg Disaster Still Resonates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            &#8220;Oh, the humanity!&#8221; Thus goes one of history&#8217;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 ( (<em>Luftschiff Zeppelin #129<\/em>) Hindenburg. That sentence, as quoted, is shortened and oversimplified. Courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Herbert-morrison-hindenburg-disaster-broadcast-oh-the-humanity-annotated\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Genius<\/a>, here&#8217;s a more complete excerpt that conveys a better sense of the mental and emotional trauma that Mr Morrison was experiencing:    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The zeppelin Hindenburg exploded on May 6, 1937. What caused it, and what was its impact on the future airship travel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,8814,8816,82,8815,7451,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airships","category-disaster","category-germany","category-germany-flights","category-hindenburg","category-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36139,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36138\/revisions\/36139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}