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What writer and newscaster both exclaimed, "Ah, the humanity!"?
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#103543. Asked by star_gazer. (Mar 04 09 3:14 PM)
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Pagiedamon
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Herbert Morrison (May 14, 1905 – January 10, 1989) was the American radio reporter who coined the phrase. He became best known for his vivid description of the Hindenburg disaster.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Morrison_(announcer)#Oh.2C_the_humanity
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Midget40
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Herbert Morrison reported live on the Hindenburg disaster
It’s fire and it crashing! . . . This is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world! Oh, it’s crashing . . . oh, four or five hundred feet into the sky, and it’s a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. There’s smoke, and there’s flames, now, and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity, and all the passengers screaming around here!
. . . I can’t talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest, it’s just laying there, a mass of smoking wreckage, and everybody can hardly breathe and talk . . . Honest, I can hardly breathe. I’m going to step inside where I cannot see it. . . .”
Years later, Morrison recalled that he yelled “Oh, the humanity,” because he thought everyone on board had died; in fact, sixty-two of the people on board survived.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/eyewitness/html.php?section=5
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