While editor of the weekly '' New Jersey Courier '' in Lakewood , New Jersey , he covered the 1937 Hindenburg disaster . Having witnessed the airship flying overhead at Toms River , New Jersey , he first wrote about its anticipated safe arrival at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station , then had to quickly rewrite the story after getting to the crash site while the ship was still in flames . A few hundred copies of the earlier edition , with the wrong story , were already on their way to news stands , " so I knew I had to collar them and get them back , " Cook said
Hindenburg disaster
Hindenburg disaster
Fred J. Cook