<p begin="00:00:00.00" end="00:00:01.41" style="1">HERBERT MORRISON: It burst into flames!</p>
<p begin="00:00:01.41" end="00:00:01.79" style="1">Get this, Charlie! </p>
<p begin="00:00:01.79" end="00:00:02.54" style="1">Get this, Charlie! </p>
<p begin="00:00:02.54" end="00:00:03.82" style="1">It's fire and it's crashing! </p>
<p begin="00:00:03.82" end="00:00:05.44" style="1">It's crashing terrible! </p>
<p begin="00:00:05.44" end="00:00:06.09" style="1">Oh my! </p>
<p begin="00:00:06.09" end="00:00:07.22" style="1">Get out of the way, please! </p>
<p begin="00:00:07.22" end="00:00:08.77" style="1">It's burning, bursting into flames,</p>
<p begin="00:00:08.77" end="00:00:10.68" style="1">and it's falling on the mooring mast!</p>
<p begin="00:00:10.68" end="00:00:12.60" style="1">And all the folks agree that this is terrible,</p>
<p begin="00:00:12.60" end="00:00:14.79" style="1">this is one of the worst catastrophes in the world!</p>
<p begin="00:00:14.79" end="00:00:15.83" style="1">Oh, the humanity! </p>
<p begin="00:00:15.83" end="00:00:18.48" style="1">And all the passengers screaming around here!</p>
<p begin="00:00:18.48" end="00:00:21.59" style="1">CHERYL R. GANZ, PH.D. I found, in the personal papers</p>
<p begin="00:00:21.59" end="00:00:24.86" style="1">of the Belin family, a map that showed</p>
<p begin="00:00:24.86" end="00:00:27.53" style="1">the route of the Hindenburg on its final flight.</p>
<p begin="00:00:27.53" end="00:00:29.35" style="1">We didn't know it existed. </p>
<p begin="00:00:29.35" end="00:00:31.89" style="1">Peter Belin was a passenger in the Hindenburg.</p>
<p begin="00:00:31.89" end="00:00:34.19" style="1">He was a 24 year-old student on his way home</p>
<p begin="00:00:34.19" end="00:00:36.27" style="1">from studying in Paris. </p>
<p begin="00:00:36.27" end="00:00:38.47" style="1">As he was getting ready for landing,</p>
<p begin="00:00:38.47" end="00:00:41.36" style="1">he packed his suitcase, put it outside his cabin door,</p>
<p begin="00:00:41.36" end="00:00:43.92" style="1">settled up his tab with the chief steward,</p>
<p begin="00:00:43.92" end="00:00:46.36" style="1">and went to the windows to take pictures and watch</p>
<p begin="00:00:46.36" end="00:00:49.74" style="1">for his parents at the landing field, wave to the people.</p>
<p begin="00:00:49.74" end="00:00:52.01" style="1">Suddenly, a jolt. </p>
<p begin="00:00:52.01" end="00:00:53.45" style="1">People are falling and screaming.</p>
<p begin="00:00:53.45" end="00:00:54.45" style="1">Something's going wrong. </p>
<p begin="00:00:54.45" end="00:00:57.75" style="1">He knows he has to get out of the ship, and quickly.</p>
<p begin="00:00:57.75" end="00:00:59.28" style="1">Two crew members jump out the window</p>
<p begin="00:00:59.28" end="00:01:01.13" style="1">he's standing at before him. </p>
<p begin="00:01:01.13" end="00:01:05.37" style="1">When he's ready to jump out, the window slams shut.</p>
<p begin="00:01:05.37" end="00:01:07.44" style="1">Somehow he breaks it, maybe with a chair,</p>
<p begin="00:01:07.44" end="00:01:08.98" style="1">he can't even remember. </p>
<p begin="00:01:08.98" end="00:01:12.22" style="1">He jumps, he runs to safety, turns around, goes back</p>
<p begin="00:01:12.22" end="00:01:14.22" style="1">and helps save other people. </p>
<p begin="00:01:14.22" end="00:01:18.04" style="1">His family has saved all his papers and souvenirs</p>
<p begin="00:01:18.04" end="00:01:21.99" style="1">from the Hindenburg and they invited me to look at these.</p>
<p begin="00:01:21.99" end="00:01:26.07" style="1">So I'm looking at things he had in his pockets when he jumped.</p>
<p begin="00:01:26.07" end="00:01:29.01" style="1">Receipts from when he settled his tab.</p>
<p begin="00:01:29.01" end="00:01:30.94" style="1">He had a roll of film in his pocket</p>
<p begin="00:01:30.94" end="00:01:33.72" style="1">with photographs taken moments before the disaster that</p>
<p begin="00:01:33.72" end="00:01:36.27" style="1">have never been published before or seen by anyone</p>
<p begin="00:01:36.27" end="00:01:38.67" style="1">else other than the family. </p>
<p begin="00:01:38.67" end="00:01:43.48" style="1">And then there are papers burned that survived somehow,</p>
<p begin="00:01:43.48" end="00:01:46.64" style="1">tightly packed from the center of his suitcase.</p>
<p begin="00:01:46.64" end="00:01:49.93" style="1">And as I'm going through those pieces of paper,</p>
<p begin="00:01:49.93" end="00:01:52.21" style="1">my heart leaps. </p>
<p begin="00:01:52.21" end="00:01:54.16" style="1">I can see a folded piece of paper</p>
<p begin="00:01:54.16" end="00:01:57.12" style="1">with a faint look of graph paper.</p>
<p begin="00:01:57.12" end="00:01:59.17" style="1">And I'm thinking, oh my goodness!</p>
<p begin="00:01:59.17" end="00:02:02.70" style="1">Could this really be the map? </p>
<p begin="00:02:02.70" end="00:02:07.14" style="1">And I gently unfold it, and there before my eyes</p>
<p begin="00:02:07.14" end="00:02:09.92" style="1">is the map of the final flight of the Hindenburg.</p>
<p begin="00:02:09.92" end="00:02:13.10" style="1">Not even the board of inquiry got to see this map.</p>
<p begin="00:02:13.10" end="00:02:16.73" style="1">They only got a proposed map, because the log books</p>
<p begin="00:02:16.73" end="00:02:19.94" style="1">burned and no one knew the exact flight route.</p>
<p begin="00:02:19.94" end="00:02:20.91" style="1">And here it is. </p>
<p begin="00:02:20.91" end="00:02:23.24" style="1">And how did Peter Belin have this?</p>
<p begin="00:02:23.24" end="00:02:26.60" style="1">Well, passengers were given a map and then every day</p>
<p begin="00:02:26.60" end="00:02:29.13" style="1">in the lounge, they would track the Hindenburg</p>
<p begin="00:02:29.13" end="00:02:31.44" style="1">on this huge map on the wall. </p>
<p begin="00:02:31.44" end="00:02:34.61" style="1">And he traced, painstakingly with pencil,</p>
<p begin="00:02:34.61" end="00:02:37.24" style="1">the exact route of the flight. </p>
<p begin="00:02:37.24" end="00:02:39.87" style="1">And we have this image in our exhibit.</p>
<p begin="00:02:39.87" end="00:02:42.17" style="1">It's one of the great discoveries and one</p>
<p begin="00:02:42.17" end="00:02:43.95" style="1">of the most significant artifacts</p>
<p begin="00:02:43.95" end="00:02:46.24" style="1">to survive the flames. </p>
<p begin="00:02:46.24" end="00:02:57.37" style="1"> </p>