I mentioned in my post yesterday on the War of the Worlds broadcast that people were conditioned to believe what they heard as breaking news on the radio in part because of the live broadcast of the crash of the zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg. I was checking out the Wikipedia entries for both the crash and Herbert Morrison’s report and discovered they did not broadcast the events live.
On May 6, 1937, Herbert Morrison of WLS in Chicago was on hand to record the docking of the Hindenburg. There was no live broadcast from the Lakehurst Naval Air Station.
Morrison and his sound engineer made a recording that was not broadcast until the next day when they returned to Chicago.
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