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Mysteries in the Archives: 1937 Crash of the Hindenburg
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As night fell near in Lakehurst, New Jersey, near New York City, on May 6,
1937, the German dirigible the Hindenburg exploded. Four different
newsreel company cameramen filmed one of the biggest scoops in the history of
scoops. Was it an accident or a terrorist attack? We’ll never know, but what
were four cameramen doing in Lakehurst as night took away the light, and rain
fell?
All four scoops are deciphered and analyzed – as is the canny use of the
new media for the American promotion of a dirigible brandishing the Nazi
swastika. The Hindenburg had been forbidden to fly over England and
France!
2007, 26 min 01 s
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