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[[File:Hindenburg burning composite 1937.jpg|thumb|350px|Stills from the Pathe newsreel footage]]
{{quote|''Oh, the humanity!''}}
One of the 20th Century's most vivid historic images is the crash of the airship ''[[Hindenburg]]'' at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937. The German hydrogen-lifted passenger zeppelin had been in operation since March 1936. Minutes after ground handlers grabbed hold of a pair of landing lines dropped from the nose of the ship, the ''Hindenburg'' suddenly burst into flames and dropped to the ground in a little over half a minute. Of the 36 passengers and 61 crew on board, 13 passengers and 22 crew died, as well as one member of the ground crew.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In a speculative ''[[Superman]]'' comic in which Superman is involved in the [[War of the Worlds]], Lois Lane is reporting on the Martian invasion by telephone: "They set the train on fire! All those people! ''The humanity!''" Since this takes place in 1938, Lois may actually be thought of as quoting Morrison.
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* Polly's on-the-spot reporting of the robot attack in ''[[Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow]]'' is very clearly influenced by both Morrison's report on the ''Hindenberg'' ''and'' Orson Welles' infamous [[The War of the Worlds (radio)|''War of the Worlds'' radioplay]]. The disaster itself either never happened in the world of the film, or did not end the era of lighter-than-air craft -- the ''Hindenburg III'' is shown docking at the Empire State Building in the opening scenes of the film.
== [[Music]] ==
* Averted by [[Led Zeppelin]], who used a still photograph of the disaster - not a frame from the newsreel footage - on the cover of their first album.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* At least one Photoshopped version of the classic photo of the burning Hindenburg replacing the zeppelin with a manatee can be found on the web with the caption [[A Worldwide Punomenon|"Oh, the huge manatee!"]]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* An episode of ''[[The Critic]]'' featured characters traveling Hindenburg Airlines, whose motto is "[[Oh, the Humanity!]]"
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' includes it in a montage of sports bloopers for whatever reason.
* On ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Barney takes the controls of the Duff Beer blimp and crashes it in a spectacular fireball, causing nearby Kent Brockman to exclaim "Oh the humanity!"
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