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Passenger Nelson Morris (1891–1955)
"The most remarkable thing that I know in my life, I took metal rods an inch thick in my hands and I broke them. They broke like paper."
Armour Meat Packing executive Nelson Morris and business associate Burtis J. Dolan, both from the Chicago area, had watched lightning from the starboard passenger lounge before Hindenburg's stern dropped sharply. The friends jumped from the flaming ship into a fiery tangle of girders. Morris survived, but Dolan became fatally trapped in the wreck. Morris secured financial support for Dolan's family. |