Hindenburg History: Former Police Chief Recalls Airship Disaster
Lifelong Toms River resident had a unique vantage point to history
There are those moments. Moments that seem frozen in time. Moments that are hard to forget. When the towers fell. Assasinations and riots. Pearl Harbor. Before them all, there was May 6, 1937. That was the day the great airship, the Hindenburg, was to return to the United States from Germany for its first Atlantic crossing of the 1937 season. Thirteen-year-old Richard Clement saw it fly over his house repeatedly that day. Now in his eighties, Clement said the sight of the dirigible will always be with him. “It was quite a sight. The biggest thing you ever saw,” he said. Clement, the retired chief of police and lifelong Toms River resident, had a unique interest in the Hindenburg. His family owned a dairy farm in Ridgeway that provided …
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1:34 pm on Saturday, May 5, 2012
Given that he retired so long ago, he probably wasn't making 50K when he retired, probably didn't get paid benefits, or a giant golden parachute. Do you have other information that you'd like to share? more ›