PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-670
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 670
SEPTEMBER 2008
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the investigative
arm of
ps,
a.k.a
cracked,
has
“cracked” some of
history’s greatest
mysteries. you
might say they’re a
real
crack team.
my name is half-
mast mccanick and I
head the
cracked
team.
I gave the
first assignment to
myself.
then again, you
might
not.
their
efforts to solve
this hindenburg case
started by verifying
or debunking the
other theories
about the tragedy.
was it possible
that
sabotage
brought down the
hindenburg?
the hindenburg was the
pride of nazi germany. those
nazis liked their airships.
could
someone who
did
not
like
the nazis plant
a
bomb?
two people were
viewed as possible
suspects. one was
eric spehl,
a
rigger on the
hindenburg.
spehl may have
done it out of
love
. spehl’s
girlfriend was a
communist and she
hated
hitler and
his third reich.
instead of a
diamond,
did spehl
give her an
airship?
not likely. spehl
died in the fire.
love’s hot, but you
don’t immolate
yourself for it.
spah, the
acrobat, may
have done it…
for
revenge.
he knew the
nazis
hated
circuses. they
weren’t big on
laughter.
but he barely escaped
with his life as he slid
down a mooring rope to
safety. no… spah was into
backflips,
not
bombs.
my name is bonnie.
I’m part of the
cracked team.
my assignment was
to investigate the
rumor that two men
armed with high-
powered rifles
shot down
the
hindenburg.
so I filed a
freedom of
information act
request with the
fbi and j. edgar’s
boys coughed up
the files on the
hindenburg. I took
a long gander at
the
‘‘two-men-
with-rifles’’
theory.
it turns out, the men
weren’t
men, but
boys.
the rifles
weren’t rifles, but
fishing poles.
and the
two boys
were
spotted
after
the
disaster,
not
before!
another
red
herring
fileted
and fried.
the other was
joseph spah,
an
acrobat… along
for the ride.
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