May 7, 1937
The Hindenburg at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey in 1936, a
year prior to the crash
Radio announcer Herbert Morrison‘s recorded eyewitness report
from the landing field,which was broadcast the next day. Of the 97
people on board (36 passengers, 61 crew), there were 36 total
fatalities, including one death among the ground crew.
Herbert Morrison
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985)
Welles was an actor, director, writer and producer who worked extensively in
theater, radio and film. He is best remembered for his debut of the Mercury
Theatre; The War of the Worlds (1938), the most famous broadcast in the
history of radio; and Citizen Kane (1941), which many critics and scholars
name as the best film of all time.
William Rogers and Lawrence Walsh witness signing the Civil Rights Bill
by President Eisenhower
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law a stronger, more protective Civil
Rights Act dealing with discriminatory laws and practices in the segregated South,
by which blacks had been deprived of the right to register and vote. It served to
eliminate certain loopholes created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
