Oh, The Humanity THE LAST CABIN BOY, THE WELSH PRISONER, THE CORRESPONDENT, AND THE SEARCH IS OVER The Hindenburg disaster, where a German zeppelin exploded on landing in New Jersey in 1937, was one of the most familiar radio broadcasts of the 20th Century. It marked the end of cross-Atlantic zeppelin travel. Werner Franz was a cabin boy and was the last crew survivor of the explosion caused by the hydrogen, which floated the zeppelin. Kenneth Rees was the Welsh airman captured by the Nazis in World War II and sent to Stalag Luft 3. He was involved in the escape attempt, which was later immortalized in the film, The Great Escape (1963). Bruce Morton was a long-time correspondent for CBS and CNN, known for his political reporting. Jimi Jamison was the lead singer of the 1980’s rock group Survivor, and the distinctive voice on some of their biggest hits. The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, which is located adjacent to the borough of Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board[N 1] (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), there were 35 fatalities of whom 13 were passengers and 22 were crewmembers. In addition one worker on the ground was killed, making a total of 36 persons who lost their lives. The disaster was the subject of spectacular newsreel coverage, photographs, and Herbert Morrison's recorded radio eyewitness reports from the landing field, which were broadcast the next day. A variety of hypotheses have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The incident shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the end of the airship era. Bruce Alexander Morton (October 28, 1930 – September 5, 2014) was a television news correspondent for both CBS News and CNN in a career which spanned over 40 years. Morton was born in Norwalk, Connecticut but grew up in Chicago. Morton graduated from Harvard University in 1952 and spent the next three years in the U.S. Army. While still at Harvard, he was a newscaster for a Boston radio station. After leaving the service, Morton went into television news, first as a behind-the-scenes assistant at New York City's WRCA-TV, then on air for a local station in Pittsburgh. He joined ABC News in 1962 as a London-based reporter. In 1964, he joined CBS News, where he would stay for the next 29 years. He was based in Washington, D.C., where he was a Congressional correspondent. During his tenure with CBS, he also co-anchored the CBS Morning News (with Hughes Rudd) from 1974 to 1977. Longtime CBS correspondent Roger Mudd, in his 2008 memoir The Place To Be, acknowledged Morton as the best writer in the CBS Washington Bureau during the years they worked together. After leaving CBS in 1993, Morton went to work for CNN, where he stayed until his retirement in 2006. Continuing to be based in Washington, his title at CNN was national correspondent. Jamison was born in rural Mississippi but considered himself a Memphis, Tennessee native, as he and his mother, Dorothy (1932-2009)[3] moved there when he was one day old. In his teens he taught himself to play guitar and piano while honing his vocal abilities. By middle school he was playing in a band.[4] By the late 1970s he was fronting the local Memphis band Target, and he went on to become the lead singer of the more well-known band Cobra in the early 1980s. He would later provide background vocals for successful bands including ZZ Top, Joe Walsh and many others.

• published: 30 Sep 2014
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