By: (AP) Seth H. Moseley, who helped cover the Hindenburg disaster for The Associated Press and later wrote a column for the seniors page of the
Register Citizen, has died. He was 92.
Moseley died Saturday at the Valerie Manor in Torrington.
In March 1932, while a reporter for the
New York Evening Journal, Moseley obtained an exclusive interview with Charles A. Lindbergh hours after the aviator's infant son was kidnapped from Lindbergh's Hopewell, N.J., home.
He also reported on the September 1934 shipboard fire that killed 134 people and set the S.S. Morro Castle adrift off the New Jersey coast. He joined the AP in New York the following year.
In May 1937, Moseley was one of the reporters covering the dirigible Hindenburg, flying from Germany to New Jersey, when it burned and crashed at Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 people.
After leaving journalism, Moseley worked in public relations in New York for more than 40 years. In 1982, he began writing a weekly column for the
Register Citizen.
Moseley's first wife, Constance, died in 1957. They had one son, Seth H. Moseley III. He is survived by his second wife, Hilda; their son, Scott; two granddaughters and three great-grandchildren.
A memorial service is scheduled for Wednesday at the Church of Christ Congregational in Norfolk.
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