“It's burst into flames! It burst into flames, and it's falling, it's crashing! Watch it! Watch it! Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Get this, Charlie; get this, Charlie! It's fire—and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It's burning and bursting into flames; and the—and it's falling on the mooring-mast… This is terrible; this is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world. “Oh, my Jesus!” Four, or five hundred feet into the sky and it—it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's flames now and the frame is crashing to the ground… Lady, I—I—I'm sorry. Honest: I—I can hardly breathe. I—I'm going to step inside, where I cannot see it. Charlie, that's terrible. Ah, ah;—I can't. Listen, folks; I—I'm gonna have to stop for a minute because I've lost my voice. This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed…”
Extract from Herb Morrison's WLS Chicago, eye witness radio report of the Hindenburg explosion at Lakehurst, NJ, on May 6, 1937.
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