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 ...

In May 1937, the Hindenburg suddenly burst into flames, killing thirty-five and the dream of commercial airship travel. “Oh, the humanity and all the passengers screaming around here. I told you, I ...

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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 ...

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Werner G. Doehner, the last survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, who suffered severe burns to his face, arms and legs before his mother managed to toss him and his brother from the burning airship, ...

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 ...