Herbert Morrison(1905-1989)
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Herbert Morrison was born on 14 May 1905 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937), Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: Winston Churchill (2022) and We, the People (1948). He was married to Mary Jane. He died on 10 January 1989 in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
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- TriviaChicago radio news reporter who in 1937 narrated the Hindenburg airship disaster in Lakehurst, NJ on a transcription disc recorder (It was not broadcast live as many people think). His report was the first such eye-witness account of a major disaster. He was sent to cover the landing of the airship by Chicago radio station WLS with the intent of interviewing several of the passengers as part of a Sunday evening news program, and unintentionally had an unobstructed view of one of the worst disasters in transportation history. He later made a life-long career as a radio news reporter.
- Quotes(While describing the Hindenburg disaster): "It's practically standing still now. They've dropped ropes out of the nose of the ship, and it's been taken a hold of down on the field by a number of men. It's starting to rain again; the rain had slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding it, just enough to keep it from ...[shouting] IT BURST INTO FLAMES! 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, bursting into flames and is falling on the mooring mast, and all the folks agree that this is terrible! This is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world! Oh, it's crashing...[his voice cracking]...oh, four or five hundred feet into the sky, and it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. There's smoke, and there's flames, now, and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast...Oh, the humanity, and all the passengers screaming around here!" "I told you...I can't even talk to people...around there. It's...[sobbing]...I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest, it's just laying there, a mass of smoking wreckage, and everybody can hardly breathe and talk...I, I'm sorry. Honest, I can hardly breathe. I'm going to step inside where I cannot see it. Charlie, that's terrible. I... [pause] Listen folks, I'm going to have to stop for a minute, because I've lost my voice...This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed..."
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