Jim, not that I know of. Does anyone know where one can download this
broadcast?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Gammon
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 10:56 AM
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Subject: Re: Complete Hindenberg Broadcast with Herb Morrison
Jim, besides listening to it, is there any way to download the
file? Jim
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Jim Shaffer <[log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date sent: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:07:26 -0500
>Subject: Re: Complete Hindenberg Broadcast with Herb Morrison
>Jim, the link to the broadcast is on the flash player at the top
of the
>page. I only saw one button there, and clicking it played the
piece.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Gammon
>Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 12:10 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Complete Hindenberg Broadcast with Herb Morrison
>Never could find the link for the recordings, just the technical
report by
>Dr Biel which was quite interesting. I had always felt that
morrison's
>voice was higher than it should have been but never put any time
or energy
>in to investigating it. Jim WA6EKS
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve
>Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 12:22 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Complete Hindenberg Broadcast with Herb Morrison
>BlankFYI
>"the airship is going to make an attempt at landing in the
rain..."
>Some of radio's greatest moments are when the actual event occurs
live on
>the air or while a reporter is recording and the unexpected
happens.
>Hindenberg DisasterOne such event happened to reporter Herb
Morrison on May
>6th, 1937 in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The mighty German passenger
Zeppelin,
>Hindenburg, was attempting a mooring. The Hindenburg was one of
Nazi
>Germany's finest airships. It was supposed to reflect the
greatness of the
>German Reich and its leader, Adolf Hitler.
>The airship had made this voyage before and friends and family
were at
>Lakehurst waiting for the arrival of the great zeppelin.
Reporter Herbert
>Morrison was there too thanks to his radio station, WLS, Chicago.
The day
>was rainy and there had been strong thunderstorms earlier.
Morrison was
>recording the event for later rebroadcast. The early part of his
recording
>reflects information about the airship and the day and what is
necessary to
>bring it into mooring under such conditions.
>Engineer Charles Nehlsen was manning the Presto Direct Disc
recorder. The
>recorder includes a large turntable with a 16-inch platter, a
heavy-duty
>lathe, which would actually cut into the lacquer disc, and an
amplifier. It
>was important that these recorders be perfectly level and that
vibration be
>avoided. Ultimately, the complete broadcast would be recorded on
four 16"
>Green label lacquer discs.
>Herb MorrisonAs the zeppelin arrives, Morrison is describing the
mooring
>when suddenly it bursts into flames. Morrison is shocked, but
keeps talking
>though breaking occasionally overcome by the tragedy unfolding in
front of
>him. Later the broadcast continues after the tragedy as the
victims are
>being brought in and survivors are interviewed.
>An interesting side note is at the moment of explosion, when
Morrison is
>heard yelling "It burst into flames!" the vibrations from the
explosion
>caused the recorder to bounce on the disc creating deep grooves
until
>Engineer Nehlson is able to momentarily lift the lathe from the
disc and
>place it back down. The discs, which are contained at the
National Archives
>reflect the grooves and the force of the explosion.
>It was radio news at its finest; news events reported as they
happened. The
>description is brought home to radio's listeners and we in turn
grieve for
>the dead and injured. This event reflected the potential and
power of radio
>broadcasting immediately before and, later, during World War II
as the
>Murrow Boys and others would bring the war home to America via
the airwaves.
>While the event was not aired live, it did air later. In those
days radio
>reporting of events was always broadcast live only since the
networks had
>policies forbidding the use of recorded material except for sound
effects.
>But Herbert Morrison, the reporter, was not there to report
disaster and had
>no facility for broadcasting live. Instead, he was there at the
behest of
>his radio station, WLS, Chicago, to record a report on the grand
airship.
>Later that day, Morrison and his sound engineer, Charlie Nehlsen
left New
>Jersey with the transcription discs and headed back to Chicago.
The morning
>after the disaster is when parts of the recording first aired
over WLS. Logs
>of when it first appeared over NBC are not known to exist. It is
known that
>at least five minutes of the recording did broadcast on May 7th
at 11:38 AM
>in the New York area and over the Red Network. It was later in
the day that
>the longer sections were played to a national audience. This was
one of the
>few times that the networks allowed a recording of an event to be
broadcast.
>http://www.otr.com/hindenburg.shtml
>Steve, K8SP
>Lansing, MI
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