English subtitles for clip: File:Live audio recording from the scene of the Hindenburg disaster 1937-05-06 19-25 EST.oga
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1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:01,728 It's starting to rain again, it's... 2 00:00:01,728 --> 00:00:03,968 the rain had (uh) slacked up a little bit 3 00:00:04,936 --> 00:00:07,608 The back motors of the ship are just holding it (uh) 4 00:00:07,608 --> 00:00:09,992 just enough to keep it from... 5 00:00:09,990 --> 00:00:12,336 It's burst into flames! Get this, Charlie; get this, Charlie! 6 00:00:12,368 --> 00:00:15,272 It's fire... and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! 7 00:00:15,328 --> 00:00:17,168 Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! 8 00:00:17,168 --> 00:00:19,104 It's burning and bursting into flames and the... 9 00:00:19,104 --> 00:00:20,432 and it's falling on the mooring mast. 10 00:00:20,432 --> 00:00:22,272 And all the folks agree that this is terrible; 11 00:00:22,272 --> 00:00:24,464 this is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world! 12 00:00:24,650 --> 00:00:26,640 [indecipherable] its flames... 13 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,496 Crashing, oh! Four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it... 14 00:00:30,490 --> 00:00:32,808 it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. 15 00:00:32,832 --> 00:00:34,270 It's smoke, and it's in flames now; 16 00:00:34,270 --> 00:00:36,616 and the frame is crashing to the ground, 17 00:00:36,616 --> 00:00:38,616 not quite to the mooring mast. 18 00:00:38,610 --> 00:00:39,980 Oh, the humanity! 19 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,168 And all the passengers screaming around here. I told you; 19 00:00:42,168 --> 00:00:42,169 Ah! 20 00:00:42,169 --> 00:00:46,168 I can't even talk to people.... 23 00:00:46,168 --> 00:00:48,168 their friends are on there! 24 00:00:48,168 --> 00:00:50,168 Ah! It's... it... it's a... ah! 25 00:00:50,168 --> 00:00:52,520 I... I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen. 26 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,864 Honest: it's just laying there, mass of smoking wreckage. 27 00:00:55,872 --> 00:00:58,728 Ah! And everybody can hardly breathe and 28 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,808 talk and the screaming. I... I... I'm sorry. 29 00:01:02,768 --> 00:01:05,168 Honest: I... I can hardly breathe. 30 00:01:05,344 --> 00:01:07,904 I... I'm going to step inside, where I cannot see it. 31 00:01:09,048 --> 00:01:10,640 Charlie, that's terrible. 32 00:01:10,768 --> 00:01:13,984 Ah, ah... I can't. Listen, folks; 33 00:01:13,980 --> 00:01:15,615 I... I'm gonna have to stop for a minute, 34 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:16,973 because I've lost my voice. 35 00:01:16,976 --> 00:01:18,976 This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed.