Only 75 years ago Herbert Morrison gave the country it’s first taste of “live reporting” when his emotional account of the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg disaster was aired on WLS Chicago ...
"It's smoke, and it's in flames now; and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity!" The giant airship Hindenburg became known as the Titanic of the sky ...
I have been thinking about Herbert Morrison lately. You may not know who Morrison was, but there’s a pretty good chance you know his work – or at least, one example of it. Morrison was a radio ...