Several hundred people have honoured the three dozen people who died when the Hindenburg burst into flames 80 years ago.
A wreath-laying ceremony was held on Saturday evening at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, where the German airship crashed. Thirty-five of the 97 people on board died, along with one person on the ground.
Sixty-two others aboard the airship survived. But only one of them remains alive today.
The wreath ceremony was organised by the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society, which preserves airship history. The group says about 600 people attended the ceremony.
Newsreels of the disaster were played and Herb Morrison's recorded report in which he uttered the now-immortal exclamation "Oh, the humanity!"
Morrison's words were not heard live, nor were they initially linked to the film shot by newsreel crews.
A curator at New York City's Paley Center for Media says it was one of the first moments in media history that had a broadcaster reacting to something totally unexpected.
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