The Hidenburg disaster broadcast was one of the first radio broadcasts that broke the news as it unfolded in person. The radio broadcast started out as the broadcaster talked about how he came on a new airplane and talked about how it only took three and a half hours to go from Chicago to New Jersey were the event takes place. He then went into the specifics about the Hidenburg airship.
Reporter Herbert Morrison was the man behind this broadcast. He was a man that went into great detail and gave details as they began to go to chaos. He was a model of what broadcasters were supposed to be. He took a short pause as the the Hidenburg crashed to allow him to collect his thoughts and the listeners. He used sources from the crash. There were survivors and he interviewed them. He got their names and he asked them questions how they survived. He then described how they looked telling listeners that his eyebrows were burned off.
Mr. Morrison gave the whole story of the disaster before, during and after the crash. This is a picture perfect example of radio broadcast. He gave credible visuals the whole time and after the crash interviewed credible people that were in the airship or witnessed the crash as he gathered their names. He stayed on the scene and gathered information for all the listeners to hear. We all learned from this man the exact details from his point of view of the Hindenburg disaster and are all thankful for the radio broadcast so we could have this as history for decades to come.
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