Dreadful end of the Hindenburg: 6 May 1937

NARRATOR: (MUSIC) Now at twilight comes the dreadful end. She is over Lakehurst, nosing in as on so many trips before. Nearly 50 laughing passengers are at the windows from which they have just looked down on millions watching from New York. There's nothing wrong. The ship levels off, drops her water ballast. The ground crew is ready underneath. It's all right, as it has always been all right. She drops her line. This voyage is over, and tonight she is going back to Germany. And then! (NOISE) (MUSIC) And so perishes another great dirigible at the home port of the vanished Shenandoah, the Akron and the Macon.

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