"The Crash of the Hindenburg"
Radio broadcast
By: Herb Morrison
Date: May 6, 1937, broadcast on May 7, 1937
Source: Morrison, Herb. "The Crash of the Hindenburg." NBC Radio broadcast. May 6, 1937. Reprinted in Garner, Joe. We Interrupt This Broadcast: Relive the Events That Stopped Our Lives. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, 1998.
About the Author: Herbert (Herb) Morrison (1906–1989), born in Pennsylvania, began his radio news career as a broadcaster at a small rural station in nearby West Virginia. Though journalism later took him to assignments in Chicago and New York, Morrison never forgot about the area where he first hit the airwaves. After serving as news director for a Pittsburgh television station, he returned to West Virginia in the 1960s to help the state university in Morgantown develop a broadcasting department. He died in Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1989 at the age of...
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