- Chicago radio news reporter who in 1937 narrated the Hindenburg airship disaster in Lakehurst, NJ on a transcription disc recorder (It was not broadcast live as many people think). His report was the first such eye-witness account of a major disaster. He was sent to cover the landing of the airship by Chicago radio station WLS with the intent of interviewing several of the passengers as part of a Sunday evening news program, and unintentionally had an unobstructed view of one of the worst disasters in transportation history. He later made a life-long career as a radio news reporter.
- "Charlie", mentioned in his report, is his sound engineer, Charlie Nehlson, who was manning the transcription disc recorder inside a nearby garage as Morrison narrated the disaster.
- Contrary to popular lore, Morrison certainly did not get fired for his impassioned commentary of the Hindenburg Explosion. On the contrary, he was highly commended by his employer for the excellent job he did at the event. Morrison did leave that job some months later, but that was because a competing broadcaster offered him a similar job with better pay.
- On the Howard Stern radio show, whenever his interviewer would run into trouble when interviewing celebs (as they played it back on the show), the sound man would play Herbert's famous "Oh, the humanity!" Hindenberg disaster coverage.
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