Term Papers on The Hindenburg

Term Paper Title	The Hindenburg
# of Words	718
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.87

The Hindenburg

     The arrival of the Hindenburg, thirteen hours behind schedule, at Lakehurst,
New Jersey, on the evening of May 6, 1937, promised to be routine.  The ship
had an unblemished safety record on eighteen previous Atlantic crossings.  In
fact, no passenger had ever lost his life on any commercial airship.  Still,
because this was the beginning of the most ambitious season yet for airship
voyages, reporters, photographers and news reel cameramen had their eyes and
lenses focused on the great dirigible as it approached.  When disaster struck
it was sudden.  Without warning flames gushed from within the Hindenburg's
hull; thirty-two seconds later the airship lay on the ground, ravaged.  Never
had the sights and sounds of a disaster in progress been so graphically
documented.  Within a day, newspaper readers and theater audiences were
confronted by fiery images of the Hindenburg.  Radio listeners heard the
emotional words of newsman Herb Morrison, sobbing into his recorder, "It's
burning, bursting into flames, and it's falling on the mooring mast and all
the folks.  This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world. . . . Oh, the
humanity and all the passengers!(Marben 58)"  When this floating cathedral,
called the Hindenburg, burst into a geyser of flaming hydrogen there was a
tremendous impact on the public, although two thirds of the people on board
survived.  Two theories about why it happened surfaced and this tragedy put
an end to the short age of these massive airships.
     The demise of the Hindenburg had a searing impact on public consciousness
that far surpassed the bare statistics of the calamity.  Men and women
escaped, even from this inferno.  One elderly lady walked out by the normal
exit as though nothing had happened and was unscratched.  A fourteen-year-old
cabin boy jumped to the ground into flames and smoke.  He was almost
unconscious from the fumes when a water-ballast bag collapsed over his head.
He got out.  One passenger hacked his way through a jungle of hot metal
using his bare hands.  Another emerged safely, only to have another passenger
land upon him and cripple him.  One man, at an open window with every chance
to jump to safety, went back into the flames to his wife, both died.  The
final count was 36 dead, including 13...

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