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Volume 12, Issue 19 - Feature #4980

1937 May 6th - The Hindenburg Explodes (Lakehurst, New Jersey)

I was 5 years old and living in Northern New Jersey at the time. The arrival of the Hindenburg was a big deal. It was in all of the papers and magazines and on the radio news. It was probably pushed along by Hitler's burgeoning propaganda machine. The explosion was something like 9/11. It was in the papers and magazines for weeks and was replayed in the movie house newsreels and talked about on the radio. Even a dreamy 5 year old was touched by the disaster. It was a less sophisticated time. The Nation was not as hardened to catastrophe and death as it became in WW II.

- 2010-05-11 14:46:39

I saw the Hindenburg on the day of its explosion, a little after noon as it flew over the Boston area. It was low enough that its swastikas were clearly visible.

Joel Berg - 2010-05-10 20:55:49

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