Talk:Herbert Morrison (journalist)

message: I don't think his response was professional. He said something to the effect of, "I can't speak anymore, ladies and gentlemen," apparently too caught up in his emotions. Chock it up to his being new and inexperienced, and it being a new moment in journalism, but still. He was over-the-top.
:Well, I don't know. He watched a massive object burst into flames, grinding 37 people to death. Under the circumstances, I think he was pretty professional. rianaC|E|T|U 02:47, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think his reaction was appropriate under the circumstances. We're not talking about arriving on the scene of an incident after being briefed on the situation - this just happened out of the blue. Also, reporting from a studio in front of a camera as the info comes off the teleprompter is quite different from reporting from the scene as it happens. Besides, I feel that if he hadn't broken down to the extent that he did and conveyed the scene through his emotions then not as many people would be interested in listening. I don't remember any particular broadcasts from the WTC attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing, or the Columbine shootings, but I remember this - I know it nearly word-for-word - and I wasn't even alive then. He expressed the horror of the scene with just his voice, which I think is quite an accomplishment even if it happens completely unintentionally. Maybe he wasn't professional in terms of being able to describe the scene matter-of-factly in his best Robert Stack impression, but it's nonetheless a powerful piece of journalism. Intooblv 02:18, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I don't use Real Player.  Is there another format available?
Try http://www.historywiz.org/audio/hindenburg.wav. I likewise would not touch RealPlayer with a 10 foot pole :) AxH0L0tL 16:52, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there an mp3 or other format recording available? 

message: I suggest a merge from Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage. The latter has little added value. Most of the content, including the quotations, are on the Herbert Morrison (announcer) article. -- AirOdyssey (Talk) 00:44, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I oppose a merge with Herbert Morrison.  Each article has its own substantial encyclopedic value, and all the Herbert Morrison information would be out of place in the Newsreel article. --MonkBirdDuke 17:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: Now, the version that I just listened to said, almost without question "whose friends are on there", not "they're all just standing around there." Well, at least, the last bit is definately  not "around there", he is, without question, saying "on there." I'm not sure if that is enough to say it HAS to be "whose friends are on there", but it is NOT "they're all just standing around there." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.147.127.121  (talk • contribs) 
I think it is "Their friends are on/out there". Frankyboy5 03:28, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whose friends are on there 

message: In the early 1980s, some years before his death, Herb Morrison appeared on one of those disaster shows on American TV hosted by the actor Charles Bronson and his wife Jill. Morrsion stated that a lady standing in front of him fainted during his commentary of the crash of the Hindenberg and he caught her in his arms. This is when he exclaimed 'Lady ... I ... I ... I'm sorry.' I remember taping the show on my old Betamax video recorder and taking it to the school where I taught in Western Sydney and showing the children in my Grade 5 class an example of 'living history.' Does anyone else remember or know of this interesing reference? I think there should be some discussion before it is put in the text. Alanwhit (talk) 13:08, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Lady - I - I - I'm sorry' 

message: really he was saying all the humanity, as in all the humanity being lost etc.... this is often misunderstood and thought to be oh the humanity because that is how everyone says it, similar to clothes being pronounced like close...just my input
:I hear "all the humanities" too. --Bluejay Young (talk) 06:03, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  oh the humanity 

message: Moved comment from Talk:Herbert Morrison (announcer)/Comments - it is much more likely to be seen here. Astronaut (talk) 17:26, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, but where can we hear this or see a transcript? I mean, where did you get this info? --Bluejay Young (talk) 05:01, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steve Dahl and Garry Meier 

message: Reading the quote is a stop-start affair due to all the second-guessing as to what he actually said. I propose that the second-guessing be stripped out and moved somewhere else, because as it stands it's just a difficult, joyless, laborious read. Objections? Vranak (talk) 17:46, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm taking it upon myself to strip out some of the second-guessing because, I agree completely with Vranak, and, more importantly, because if you listen to the "corrected-speed" version made available at the WLS external link (and WLS was the station for which Morrison recorded the broadcast, so they can be considered canon for this), most of it becomes quite clear. 207.181.228.210 (talk) 16:08, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, done, and posted.  Really, throw the whole thing into Audacity, hit 'Change Tempo' to slow it down without chipmunking it, Amplify to turn up the volume, and there's few indecipherable sections left in the quote. 207.181.228.210 (talk) 17:16, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that's fine. The only quibble I have is that I've always heard "all the folks between" -- backed up by an interview with Morrison where he said the thing that really terrified him was that the flaming ship was going to fall on the workers and spectators beneath. --Bluejay Young (talk) 09:18, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The quote itself 

message: Nehlsen OR Nielsen ???  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.159.233.142 (talk) 18:08, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nehlsen OR Nielsen  

message: Is there any information about Herbert Morrison that does not relate to the Hindenberg disaster?  Where was he born, where did he die?  Most of the article is about one event in a man's life and not the man's life. Jtyroler (talk) 17:29, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Herb Morrison - the person 

message: Ive searched this page for a link to the corrected speed version of the audio recording and wasn't able to find one. I did find a partial clip on You Tube and was shocked at the difference. If anyone is able to link to or embed a speed corrected version on the main page, it would be a valuable addition as it is very different from what is etched into the collective conscience as "Herbert Morrison's voice".
184.78.162.36 (talk) 10:05, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I would think that since Morrison lived more than 50 years after the crash and the recording was played to death for the rest of his life, if it was really significantly sped up, there would be a quote from him or somebody who knew his voice commenting on the difference. -- But|seriously|folks  04:38, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

text: So I just edited the article to take a neutral approach to the "wrong speed" theory. The article previously assumed that it was correct. It might be, but as of now it's just a theory. -- But|seriously|folks  04:48, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrected speed link? 

message: I listened to the recording embedded in the article while reading the transcript. These words from the transcript are not in the recording: "It burst into flames, and it's falling, it's crashing! Watch it! Watch it, folks! Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"
Where did those come from? ~Amatulić (talk) 19:33, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible error in transcript?