On May 6, 1937, the largest airship that’s ever taken to the air — the German zeppelin LZ-129 Hindenburg — burst into flames on landing at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing 36. What caused the fire that consumed the pride of Adolf Hitler’s air fleet? All that through the eyes of newsman Herb Morrison, whose famous, “Oh, the Humanity!” is etched into the pages of history.
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