European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Models of the Hindenburg and Otner airships at a museum in Friedrichs Taten Germany on Lake Constance. It s burst into flame of the humanity associated press Herbert Morrison recalls things More slowly these Days but when he closes his eyes she a vols of May 6, 1937, come Rushing Back the explosion. The die and people falling from the sky ii s burst into flame yes. M s started it s lire and it s crashing it s crashing terrible of my Morrison screamed  microphone As the highly Hindenburg exploded. Morrison now 81, was the Only bios Dussler reporting on the Landing of the enormous Airship. Then 31 years old Morrison became the eyes and ears for the world As he gave a tearful account of the devastation. His report on Chicago radio station was was repeatedly rebroadcast across the a ii was about 7 25 . As dusk settled Over . N Morrison recalled at his Home in Morgan loin. . The Ai ship had encountered Strong head winds and  several hours behind its scheduled arrival. It was getting dark and a mile in ale of rain had started Morrison said. The Landing Crew was spread out around the Landing slip we could see the r Hindenburg coming to and Down and Down and Down about 10 minutes out i snarled talking into the  " in t Hal a Beauli Lul sight i said Morrison recalled i was talking about what in meant o the United slates to have this connection with Germany and How in showed the Success of air travel i hardly had the words of of my Mouth when wow i heard an explosion. A fire erupted in the Tail Sechan. People around me gasped. They started crying and screaming we could Sec things a Allig out of the Hindenburg. Some of the things wore  As the disaster unfolded Morrison gave an emotional firsthand account at one pain halting to choke Back tears when the Airship crashed to the ground. It s burning bursting into frames and it s falling on the mooring Mast and All the looks. This is terrible this is one of the worst Calass Rophet s in the world. Of. Flames going of four to five Hundred foot in the sky and it s a Lernlie crash ladies and gentlemen. The smoke and the flames now and the Frame is clashing Down Inlo the ground nol Quale to the mooring Mast of the humanity. Ail Irie passengers. I Don l believe i can l even Lalk to people whose friends Are on there. It s a it s Ai can t talk ladies and Gondi men. Hones it just lays there a mass of smoking wreckage " Morrison interrupted his 12 minute broadcast belly to help two survivors to safety the Shock was goal but nol tical enough to make me Slop talking i talked All the Way through to said Afler eluding other reporters and throngs of people who walled to hear his tapes and question him about the disaster. Morrison finally retired to Chicago Early the next morning. His report Neva Airnet Lor the first time at noon on May 7, 1937. Zeppelin City i by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau the Golden age of airships ended decades ago but the City thai produced so Many of the celestial be Homolos has t forgotten  o the four Story stad fisches Bode see museum in Friedrichs Hafen on Lake Constance in Southern Germany in a Wing of the Friedrichs Hafen City Hall vividly recess i to giant passenger ships. Along with scale models. Kief o Are Pool graphs documents sections of Metal framework dining room China and films of the Hindenburg flights and its destruction. Starting May 6, the 50th anniversary of the disaster the museum will open a three month special Hindenburg Eshi Bil. Displaying construction plans More photographs and items retrieved from the wreckage at Lakehurst . The cily of Friedrich Shafon in the Cradle of Ine Zeppelin Airship Industry. It s that  Sard museum director Lulu title the world s Best known do Giles took the r name from Ferdina id Graf count von Zeppelin 1838-1917a German cavalry brigade general dipl motor and Airship enthusiast who look his first balloon ride in Minnesota while on a visit to the United  to observe civil War action. Fascinated with flight a tinkered with Airship designs for years before taking out a Patent on one in 1895. He built and flew four airships Between 1900 and 1308, and by the time the last Model burned aug. 5, 1908, in a storm at Echerd Mrdjen near Stuttgart he was so famous thai a nationwide fund raising Florl brought him 6 million German Marks to continue his work. Zeppelin used half the Money to found the firm  Zeppelin in Friedner Dafen where it thrived for three decades. The company produced 102 tits 119atrships during world War i delivering them All to the German army and Navy do Lechnick advances in air planes robbed airships of their military significance by War s end. The company then began building passenger ships Star log with the Botie see and the Nords Lern. The most successful Model was the Graf Zeppelin built in 1923. The Airship made 590 passenger lights including voyages around the world and to the Arctic Ocean.  Zeppelin s Frankfurt based sister corporation Deutsch Zeppelin Hedderel built the world s largest passenger airships the Hindenburg in 1936 and the Graf Zeppelin ii in 1938. Each was about 504 feet Long could hold 55 passengers and could Page 14 the stars and stripes the Hindenburg Over Berlin during 1936 olympics. Tuesday