Lakehurst, New Jersey -
Crash Site of the Hindenburg

Crash Site of the Hindenburg

Where the Nazi zeppelin Hindenburg crashed in 1937, ending a generation's dreams of luxury airships. Museum of artifacts in the huge hangar. Roadsideamerica.com Report... [04/26/2009]

Hindenburg - Historical Details

I worked at WCOA in Pensacola, Florida and the story is that an engineer at the station was "taping" the network news which ended right before the Hindenburg Crash in Lakehurst, NJ. Stations stopped their wire recorders and rewound the "tape" to play it "live" but WCOA delayed their coverage until a local program ended several minutes later. The engineer played the news at the end of the local program. Stations that carried the news live didn't record the coverage of the Hindenburg Crash but only WCOA kept the tape going long enough to hear the whole story and from what I have heard, every time you hear the fellow saying..."Oh the humanity..." it was recorded on WCOA in Pensacola, which at that time was in The Hotel San Carlos on Garden at Palafox in the city of Five Flags. [Jack Hixon, 08/21/1997]