Herbert Morrison (journalist)

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Herbert Morrison
Morrison in the 1930’s
Born	Herbert Oglevee Morrison (1905-05-14)May 14, 1905 Connellsville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	January 10, 1989(1989-01-10) (aged 83) Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Radio journalist

Herbert Oglevee Morrison (May 14, 1905 – January 10, 1989) was an American radio journalist who recorded for broadcast his dramatic report of the Hindenburg disaster, a catastrophic fire that destroyed the LZ 129 Hindenburg zeppelin on May 6, 1937, killing 35 people.

Morrison was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, on May 14, 1905,^[1] to Walter Lindsay Morrison and Bertha Frances Oglevee Morrison. Morrison's father left the family early, and Morrison moved with his mother and older brother to Scottdale, Pennsylvania, when he was a young boy. The home he grew up in belonged to his grandmother, who supported the family by taking in boarders.^[2]