The Hindenburg story, 75 years later

May 5, 2012 photog blogs

Seventy-five years ago tomorrow, one of the most infamous spot news stories of the 20th Century took place on a rainy airfield in New Jersey – the Hindenburg disaster.

Cameramen Al Gold, Larry “Bouy” Kennedy, Deon de Titta, Jr., contact man Alexander A. Brown and soundman Addison Tice of Fox Movietone, News of the Day cameraman James Seeley and soundman Charles “Chic” Peden, Pathe News photog Bill Deeke and Paramount News’ Tommy Craven all though it was going to be just another routine story.

But as history remembers, it was not…