Crash of the airship Hindenburg, recorded on May 6th 1937
Major news events also gripped the nation. Bulletins on the hunt for the kidnapped baby son
of aviator Charles Lindbergh kept listeners in an agony of suspense over several months in 1932
and in 1936 the war correspondent Hans Von Kaltenborn became the first American reporter to broadcast
live from a war zone, when he brought the actual sounds of a Spanish civil war battle into ordinary
homes. Equally dramatic was the fatal crash of the airship Hindenburg, recorded on May 6th 1937 by
Herbert Morrison of Chicago station WLS, an event that reduced the helpless reporter to .... read more.
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Radio
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1938
The War Of The Worlds by Orson Welles. The infamous radio broadcast that panicked America on Halloween night.
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