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Inside the Hindenburg (Original Post) True Dough May 2017 OP
K&R! This is fascinating, thanks for posting! Rhiannon12866 May 2017 #1
Fascinating. Did you ever read Ken Follett's "Night Over Water"? spiderpig May 2017 #2
I haven't True Dough May 2017 #6
Great article lillypaddle May 2017 #3
This has always been a fascinating subject to me. bearssoapbox May 2017 #4
Interesting True Dough May 2017 #7
The Postal Museum in DC has singed letters recovered from the Hindenburg. mahatmakanejeeves May 2017 #5
Cool! True Dough May 2017 #8
My parents took me to see the film 'The Hindenburg' when I was a kid. Aristus May 2017 #9

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
2. Fascinating. Did you ever read Ken Follett's "Night Over Water"?
Mon May 22, 2017, 05:03 AM
May 2017

Novel about the first Pan American Clipper from Southampton to New York in 1939. I think the book had seating charts.

bearssoapbox

(1,408 posts)
4. This has always been a fascinating subject to me.
Mon May 22, 2017, 06:06 AM
May 2017

I just watched this National Geographic Documentary last week.

The building of them, the size and opulence, for an airship, was really something.

It deals with how the disaster happened.

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Aristus

(66,096 posts)
9. My parents took me to see the film 'The Hindenburg' when I was a kid.
Mon May 22, 2017, 11:48 AM
May 2017

I became fascinated with the story as a result.

One thing that always stands out for me is Herbert Morrison's "Oh, the humanity!" live commentary. It's been parodied and made fun of for decades, and I don't know why. It's heartbreaking. It was unscripted, unrehearsed, spontaneous, and from the heart. He keeps trying to report the story as it's happening, and then bursts into tears because he's a human being. We would never get such a response from today's robotic, blow-dried, by-the-book news anchors.

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