Saturday was the 80th anniversary of the crash of the Hindenberg airship, May 6, 1937, in New Jersey. It carried 97 passengers from Germany, 35 of them dying in the disaster and another victim was on the ground.
Flammable hydrogen kept the ship in the air until it ignited in over a landing site in New Jersey.
Words of a radio announcer reporting on it were recorded at the time but not broadcast until the next day - "Oh the humanity!"
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