The Hindenburg represented the finest in air travel, it also represented the finest in Nazi propaganda. It was a national symbol paraded at sporting events, rallies, and other events where the Nazis wanted to show off their prowess.
By the end of 1936, Hindenburg had crossed the Atlantic 34 times, carrying over 3,500 passengers and the ship’s highly successful 1936 season seemed to indicate that regular transatlantic air service had arrived.
Imagine a world in which luxury travel was not only available to everyone, but was also affordable. In its day, airship travel was twice as fast as steamship travel and didn't require one to spend days adjusting to the tossing and turning of the ocean.
These luxury airships were called "hotels in the sky." You could leisurely float ~500-1000ft above the ocean in your transoceanic journey. Here is an excerpt from the Hindenburg brochure:
"You open your suit case and arrange your clothes in the wardrobe. At last, your shaving kit, hair brushes and other articles of toilet are displayed upon the toilet stand. At once, your cabin acquires a homely personal atmosphere."
"You listen for the roar of the engines, or the fierce rush and vibration of the air, but apart from a distant quiet murmur, everything is tranquil and peaceful. You feel that nothing will disturb your sleep."
"Your steward appears and explains to you the arrangement of the handles and switches for light, heat, and ventilation. You are shown the bell-push in your cabin which will bring him to your side at any time during the day or night."
"Before he leaves, he reminds you to leave your shoes outside your cabin door for cleaning. You begin to feel that nothing has been overlooked to ensure your comfort."
According to Kenneth Price Jr, 1lb of coal could carry one person and their luggage from Berlin to NYC at the cost of $1/lb!

So not only are airships much more comfortable than modern flight, they are also much more fuel efficient than any modern jet airliner or vehicle.
The Hindenburg was capable of flying around the world in 1936 without stopping for fuel. But what really makes the "aha" meter peg out is the fact that there were plans, never implemented, to add a fifth engine car, containing a Daimler-Benz diesel adapted to burn hydrogen.
We were getting dangerously close to free energy travel. If that technology had been developed, standardized and miniaturized... just imagine.
However, the Hindenburg "disaster" at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937 brought an end to the age of the rigid airship.

The disaster killed 35 persons on the airship, and one member of the ground crew, but miraculously 62 of the 97 passengers and crew survived.
After more than 30 years of passenger travel on commercial zeppelins — in which tens of thousands of passengers flew over a million miles, on more than 2,000 flights, without a single injury — the era of the passenger airship came to an end in a few fiery minutes.
That feel when you will never...
You have your usual suspects. The oil oligopoly and perhaps even the US government. Despite a U.S. ban on the export of helium under the, the Germans designed the airship to use the far safer gas in the belief that they could convince the US government to license its export.
When the designers learned that the National Munitions Control Board refused to lift the export ban, they were forced to re-engineer Hindenburg to use hydrogen for lift. Flammable hydrogen was the only alternative lighter-than-air gas that could provide sufficient lift.
There are many questions surrounding this famous incident:

Why was the public never shown one single photographic picture that showed the beginning of Hindenburg‘s fire even though there were 22 professional photographers at the event to film her docking?
Why were there so many photographers there to film the Hindenburg's arrival into Lakehurst, Va. when she had already completed 34 successful transatlantic crossings the prior year?
Why was a “static spark ” theory selected as Hindenburg’s nemesis when there was no evidence to support the occurrence of a static spark in the first place since it had never occurred in the four previous decades of flying hydrogen-filled zeppelins?
Hugo Eckener, former head of the Zeppelin Company, Charles Rosendahl, commander of the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, Max Pruss, captain of the Hindenburg and most of the surviving crew believed the airship had been sabotaged.
Why did all nations stop building rigid airships after the burning of the Hindenburg when she and Graf Zeppelin had clearly demonstrated an effective form of flight resulting in extreme fuel efficiency?

Remember, only 13 deaths out of the 36 passengers on the airship died.
If a fire breaks out in a modern airliner, the results are horrifically predictable.

Why does hydrogen continue to be shunned as a gas that is flammable when modern airliners and passenger cars continue to carry a fuel that is not only volatile but even more dangerous?
(But of course, now that the oligarchy plans to keep us locked down and terrified of endless invisible enemies, the technology is suddenly making a comeback.)
The answers are obvious. This technology, if refined and standardized, would be so cheap it would make personal long distance transport and exploration affordable to most. A nightmare to our overlords.

There is, out there, MORE LAND.
This incident was the first time that recordings of a news event were ever broadcast, and also the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast. This was the most shocking moving image most people ever saw. It changed the way news was reported.

Listen to this man's performance.
This was heavily edited, and seemed to be scripted as well. Parts of Morrison's broadcast were later dubbed onto newsreel footage. That gave the impression that the words and film were recorded together, but that was not the case.

Why would they do this?
The video cuts between two different camera sources with a different exposure to capture the flames. The first frame after the cut is black. Then he describes the scene as if it were a script.
He even says at one point "all the folks agree that this is terrible, this is one of the worst catastrophes in the world." When did he ask "all the folks" that question? What is going on with this dude?
There are no interviews or any audio/video synchronicities to prove he was actually there on the scene.

Little is known of Morrison's early life, his career prior to the on-site report he gave of the Hindenburg's fiery destruction or of his career subsequent to the tragedy.
In 1975, he was sent across the country by Universal Studios to help promote their film “Hindenburg,” which starred George C. Scott. So he was used for propaganda purposes even decades later.

His wife's name was "Mary Jane". This is not a real person.
It all becomes even more painfully obvious when you examine the propaganda films they released later. Look at the skull.

Can you imagine the ghouls that did this? For that era, this would be like playing Faces of Death in a cinema.
Imagine it's 1937, you're going out to see Sh! The Octopus or Heidi and— surprise you gentle idiots, you moronic quokkas— here is *grisly flaming death*.
Two lies in just this short clip :

1. most didn't die in the crash

2. it wasn't a "miracle" there were survivors— hydrogen dissipates quickly, unlike jet fuel.

Please enjoy the *fake screams of anguish* that were added in post. Remember, this is ostensibly a news production.
I've found no explanation as to why so many photographers were present in Lakehurst. Passenger airships had existed for a decade. The Hindenburg herself made regular trips.

Yet we have professional aerial photography from multiple sources.

Notice the tone on "hydrogen".
"it almost seemed as if fate had set the stage for the horrible tragedy"

They are laughing.

This event signified a downward shift in the direction of our civilization, into a much greyer timeline— and they are laughing.
How many people at the time were disgusted by this narrative? There were many alternative theories, including the possibility that evidence of sabotage had been suppressed.

In fact, Michael Mooney in his 1972 book, The Hindenburg, revealed what he found in the National Archives:
In this clip we hear the random screams of actresses that are in no way synchronized with the timeline. People then had no perception of video editing, all of this was undetectable to all but professionals—

...a vulnerability that would've been well understood by the producers.
We get the picture as he starts to wax poetic on the destruction. This was a "news organization", the gratuitous embellishment has one purpose—

They seem to be trying their best to traumatize the audience. After this, there are minutes of closeups of the wreckage.
Now that your conscious mind has been dazed by screams and flames, he can slip his message into your subconscious—

"a greater and a better means of mastering the air"

These newsreels were released days after the disaster but he's giving you the whole historical narrative.
They also had prescient "experts" back then. This was an international investigation that had hundreds of witnesses and thousands of pieces of evidence.

"The exact cause will never be known," say the sinister all-seeing wizards in the employ of Universal Studios.
But anyone with any sense does know the cause. You can feel the haunting pull of your rightful timeline, hear the words of your own true self that does exist in that place.

"They are the thieves of worlds, those that have done this— they are the enemies of humanity."
We must rebuild what we have lost. Abandon the streets and the inferior technology of deadly, hideous "cars".
Personal lighter-than-air travel is no dream, it is your birthright.
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