1937. Crash du Hindenburg

A behind-the-scenes look at one of the biggest scoops in the history of scoops. May 6, 1937. Four newsreel company cameramen await the arrival of the celebrated Hindenburg in Lakehurst, New Jersey outside New York City. During the final approach as night falls, the 110-metre German dirigible explodes in front of their eyes – and their cameras. All four scoops are deciphered and analyzed – as the canny use of the new media for the American promotion of a dirigible brandishing the Nazi swastika.
Was it an accident or a terrorist attack? We'll never know, but what were four cameramen doing in Lakehurst as night took away the light, and rain fell? Why were these four cameramen there? What became of their respective scoops?
The Hindenburg had been forbidden to fly over England and France. Why had those countries prohibited the Hindenburg's passage over their territory while the Americans welcomed the dirigible?

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