Morrison’s recording offered the nation a first glimpse of broadcast journalism’s stunning emotional potential. “Oh, it burst into flames, get out of the way, please … this is terrible!” Morrison ...

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 ...

For the second time in his life, 80-year-old Herb Morrison watched stunned as a breathtaking spectacle of flight turned to tragedy. Morrison’s emotional description of the fiery 1937 crash-landing of ...

It was 80 years ago Saturday that a radio announcer from Chicago stood at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey and uttered those words into a microphone as the German airship burst into flames, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Wednesday’s “The Late Show,” Stephen Colbert imagined what it would be like if a reporter who covered the Hindenburg disaster ...

The Hindenburg disaster was not the first time that radio influenced the way or the speed by which news was delivered to the masses, nor was it the first major event to be given live coverage. To look ...

It was 80 years ago Saturday that a radio announcer from Chicago stood at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey and uttered those words into a microphone as the German airship burst into flames, ...