Going through my archives to look up information on a photog who was killed in an accident decades ago for a project and I find a mention in an article about Thomas Proffitt saying he shot the Hindenburg disaster.

History says that the Universal Newsreel cameraman who was assigned to cover the Zeppelin arrival that night left early since he apparently had a date night and tickets to a show and therefore missed the explosion. He also was never named in any of the articles about the disaster that I’m aware of.

Could Tommy have been the unnamed seventh photog at Lakehurst on May 6, 1937 that the identity of his fellow photogs never mentioned?

Then again he always could have been at the followup to the disaster the next day and the reporter who wrote this article was embellishing Proffitt’s career a bit.