May 7, 1937 saw Herbert Morrison earn a place in history when his broadcast of what disaster, which included a very plaintive "Oh, the humanity!" reached the listeners of WLS radio in Chicago?
WLS (AM) country music and humor. The station also experimented successfully in many forms of news broadcasting, including weather and crop reports. Its most famous news broadcast was the eyewitness report of the Hindenburg disaster by Herbert Morrison. Morrison and engineer Charles Nehlsen had been sent to New Jersey by WLS to cover the arrival of the Hindenburg for delayed broadcast. Their recordings aired the next day on May 7, 1937, the first time that recordings of a news event were ever broadcast. Starting in the 1930s, WLS was an affiliate of the Blue Network of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and
Herbert Morrison (announcer) Herbert Morrison (announcer) Herbert Oglevee "Herb" Morrison ( – ) was an American radio journalist best known for his dramatic report of the "Hindenburg" disaster, a catastrophic fire that destroyed the LZ 129 "Hindenburg" zeppelin on May 6, 1937, killing 36 people. Little is known of Morrison's early life, his career prior to the on-site report he gave of the "Hindenburg's" fiery destruction and of his career subsequent to the tragedy. Morrison and engineer Charlie Nehlsen had been assigned by station WLS in Chicago to cover the arrival of the "Hindenburg" in New Jersey for delayed broadcast. Radio network policy