Herbert Morrison (journalist)

Herbert Oglevee Morrison (May 14, 1905 – January 10, 1989) was an American radio journalist who recorded for broadcast his dramatic report of the Hindenburg disaster, a catastrophic fire that destroyed the LZ 129 Hindenburg zeppelin on May 6, 1937, killing 36 people.

Morrison was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, on May 14, 1905, to Walter Lindsay Morrison and Bertha Frances Oglevee Morrison. Morrison's father left the family early, and Morrison moved with his mother and older brother to Scottdale, Pennsylvania, when he was a young boy. The home he grew up in belonged to his grandmother, who supported the family by taking in boarders.