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Poor Herbert. https://youtu.be/nJ4XsHRZmpw

>Herbert Morrison’s dramatic narration of the newsreel of the Hindenburg disaster is probably the public’s most enduring memory of the crash. And perhaps the most misunderstood.

>Morrison’s commentary was not made for a newsreel, and theater audiences in 1937 never experienced his words and the film together; Morrison was a radio reporter and his words were not paired with the film footage until decades later.

>No radio listener heard Morrison describe the crash as it happened, as some people claim to remember; his report was not broadcast live.

>People think Morrison had a high-pitched, squeaky voice; he had the rich mellow tones of a radio announcer.

>Posterity remembers Morrison for a few seconds of panic and crying; in fact, he regained his calm within moments and recorded almost 37 minutes of information about the crash with professionalism and accuracy.