Hindenburg Disaster May 6, 1937
75th Anniversary Podcast
Learn about the history of the Hindenburg airship crash and see photos of artifacts. The
airship caught fire on May 6, 1937 and was destroyed as it was attempting to land at the
Lakehurst Naval Air Station. This podcast is sponsored by the Ocean County Library with
special guest speakers, Mr. Carl Jablonski, president of the Navy Lakehurst Historical
Society and Douglas King, son of Harry King, an employee of the Zeppelin company
who had the sole baggage concession.
Listen to the Interview with Mr. Jablonski & Mr. King
Click to Listen
(Podcast hosted on YouTube)
See disaster footage
Visit the Ocean County Library’s Find it! page and click on “Student Library Online”. Use
your library card barcode to enter the library subscription database, Access Video on
Demand Make sure to click the link “To access from home click here” if you are outside
of the library building. Use the search box and enter “Hindenburg” to find film clips.
Hindenburg stories
Do you want to read about how the 24 year old editor of Toms River’s New Jersey
Courier almost reported that the Hindenburg landed safely at Lakehurst?
Read the story in Fred J. Cook’s biography, Maverick: Fifty Years of Investigative
Reporting, starting on page, 78.
Newspaper Stories
The Asbury Park Press interviewed several local witnesses to the crash in the May 5,
2002 50th Anniversary article, “OH, THE HUMANITY” On May 6, 1937, world's largest
aircraft burst into flames at Lakehurst, killing 36 by Kirk Moore.
Among other stories, there are memories from a First Aid Squad member who rushed to
the scene and how the New Jersey Courier was able to get the real story in the paper
and the wrong story out.
To access this Asbury Park Press story visit the Ocean County Library’s Find it! page.
Use your library card barcode to enter the library subscription to the Asbury Park Press. If
you are at home remember to use the link labeled “From Home with Library Card”.
Newspaper Clippings
You can visit the Ocean County Library Toms River Branch to view newspaper clipping
files which library staff have clipped over the years. They are indexed in our Wheeler
Room vertical files under “Hindenburg Disaster – Ocean County”. Feel free to ask staff
for assistance with these files.
Trenton Times Historical Archive
Another great source to read about the
Hindenburg disaster is the library
subscription to the Trenton Times
Historical Archive which has full-text PDF
articles from 1883 to 1993.
Websites
Navy Lakehurst Historical Society
The NLHS is dedicated to preserving the heritage of the Naval Airstation Lakehurst, a
New Jersey non-profit group. The website contains several pictures and artifacts of the
Hindenburg, LZ-129.
FBI Records: The Vault
Read the hundreds of letters, memos and other documents related to the Hindenburg.
Herb Morrison “Oh, the humanity”
Eyewitness: American Originals from the National Archives
Read excerpts from the audio recording of one of the most famous broadcasts in the
history of radio journalism, Herb Morrison’s eyewitness report of the explosion and crash
of the German passenger airship, Hindenburg.
Selected Books and DVD’s
You can find many more books, movies and more to borrow from the Ocean County
Library by visiting www.theoceancountylibrary.org and clicking on “Library Catalog” to
search our collections and to place holds.
Hindenburg: An Illustrated History by
Rick Archbold
Call # 629.13324 Arch
Secrets of the dead. What happened
to Hindenburg?
Call # DVD 363.12465 Secr
The Hindenburg disaster *
By Peter Benoit
Call J363.124 Beno
* geared towards children
The Hindenburg disaster *
by Sherman, Jill.
Call # YA 363.124 Sher
* geared towards a teen audience
Prepared by Meagan Denigris, Ocean County Library, April 2012