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Herb Morrison Hindenburg Disaster
“Oh the humanity” said Herb Morrison a reporter. Herb Morrison was at the event and he saw the whole disaster. He saw so many people die in front of his eyes. Now more information about the hindenburg and cause and effect of the disaster.

The Hindenburg was a German passenger airship called LZ 129 Hindenburg and that a zeppelin. The Hindenburg was capable of traveling 78 miles per hour and it was 245m (804 ft) long and 41m (135 ft) in diameter. The Hindenburg was also a mail airship because it was carrying dozens of letters on board. The hindenburg was the conqueror of it’s day because it was the biggest and fastest airship of it’s time. It’s able to cross the atlantic in about three days twice as fast as using a bout and going by sea. The Hindenburg was designed to hold 500 passengers maximum.
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A happy moment turn horrible with in a blink of an eye. Herd morrison a reporter for WLS radio in chicago cried out the now famous words “oh the humanity” when he saw the beautiful ship turn into a fireball in only 34 seconds. That broadcast allowed the whole United states of America to know what happen at the exact time. The disaster cause the government to investigate what was the cause of the disaster.

The survivors of the hindenburg disaster far outnumber the victims. The disaster claimed 36 people lives out of 98 passenger and 59 crewman. Many survivors jumped out of Hindenburg even when the Hindenburg was a giant fireball. The people who were on the hindenburg 62 of them survived. 20 passengers and 15 crewman died and 1 crewman on the ground. 200 crewman were on the ground to help the Hindenburg land and 59 crewman were in the Hindenburg.

Think about what caused the crash of the Hindenburg? To this day we don’t what happen to cause the crash of the Hindenburg. There's ton of theories but, no way to be certain about what happened. Go ahead and think about what happened and how it


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