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Herbert Oglevee Morrison (May 14, 1905 – January 10, 1989) was an American radio journalist who recorded for broadcast his dramatic report of the Hindenburg disaster, a catastrophic fire that destroyed the LZ 129 Hindenburg zeppelin on May 6, 1937, killing 35 people. Morrison was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, on May 14, 1905, [1] to ...
- Herbert Oglevee Morrison, May 14, 1905, Connellsville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Radio journalist
- January 10, 1989 (aged 83), Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S.
Herbert Morrison after the Hindenburg. Morrison served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and became a radio reporter and the first news director at WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh. He ran for Congress three times as a Pennsylvania Republican during in the 1950s. Morrison died at the age of 83 on January 11, 1989, in a nursing home in Morgantown ...
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Jan 11, 1989 · Jan. 11, 1989 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Herbert Morrison, the only broadcaster on hand when the dirigible Hindenburg exploded into a disastrous legacy 52 years ago and whose distraught ...
H. erbert. M. orrison. WLS Radio (Chicago) Recorded Broadcast on the Hindenburg Disaster. delivered 6 May 1937, Lakehurst, NJ. click for pdf. We both flew down from Chicago yesterday afternoon aboard one of the giant new 21-passenger flagships of American Airlines. It took us only 3 hours, 55 minutes to fly nonstop from Chicago to New York.
One of the most famous broadcasts in the history of radio journalism is Herb Morrison’s 1937 eyewitness report of the explosion and crash of the German passenger airship, Hindenburg. On May 6, 1937, while preparing to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, the Hindenburg burst into flames and crashed to the ground, killing ...
Herbert Morrison’s famous 1937 broadcast of the Hindenburg airship disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey. While coming in for a landing, the Hindenburg zeppelin caught fire and killed 36 people (35 ...
May 6, 1937. A muddy landing field in New Jersey. Herb Morrison, a radio announcer, was on hand to interview the well-to-do passengers arriving on the watermelon-shaped flying wonder called the Hindenburg. The Zeppelin was drifting in to land. Suddenly--the heat and the glow of the Hindenburg on fire erupted over him.
