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Josh Clark

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Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

George C. Scott and Anne Bancroft, among others.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

But it seemed from the trailer that they fully like just fictionalized and that it was it was a bomb and it was sabotage.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

And that was that was the movie.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Yeah, that's what it looked like to me.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

And apparently it was a $15 million movie at the time, which was a lot of dough in 1975 for a movie.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Sure.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Yeah, it was just the peak.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

It was peak disaster film.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

So they were looking at all angles, I think.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Yeah, that was one.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Yeah, that's a good point.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Yeah, bombs being fired at from below, from above.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

The one thing they do know for sure is that the hydrogen was what caused it to go up in flames in like 30 seconds.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Right.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

There is no controversy about that.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

How that happened is still not for sure known.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Witnesses said that as the ship approached, it appeared to be glowing,

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

before the fire even started.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

And so at the time, scientists heard that, and they were like, oh, okay, well, it gathered an electrostatic charge because of these storms that were going on, and that there was probably like a hydrogen leak, and that's what ignited the whole thing.

Stuff You Should Know
The Hindenburg Disaster

Yeah, I agree.