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The Hindenburg disaster became one of the most famous tragedies in aviation history after the massive German airship caught fire above Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937. For decades, people believed ...

In Tom Clancy's sensationalist novel "Debt of Honor," a disgruntled pilot decides to avenge his lost honor by crashing a fuel-laden 747 directly into the U.S. Capitol, causing the giant building to ...

On May 6, 1937 an errant spark turned the hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg into a fireball and sent it crashing to the ground, killing 36 people. News cameras filmed the fiery crash and live radio ...

A new PBS documentary has new evidence about what happened in the Hindenberg disaster. (Photo courtesy of PBS) Eighty-four years after the airship Hindenburg crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, a new ...

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 9 p.m. and Sunday, May 8 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, May 8 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with PBS Video App! Long-overlooked footage of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster ...

The last survivor of the Hindenburg airship disaster, Werner Gustav Doehner, has died, according to his family. Doehner, 90, passed away at a hospital in Laconia, New Hampshire, on November 8, his son ...

We've all heard the phrase, "Oh, the humanity!" — but did you know WKRP In Cincinnati's iconic "Turkeys Away" episode was ...

Eighty-one years ago, a broadcast of Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds supposedly caused mass hysteria in America, as listeners thought martians had invaded New Jersey. There are varying accounts of ...