Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' broadcast, a realistic radio dramatization of Martians invading Earth, scared Americans and sparked a nationwide panic on Oct. 30, 1938. Orson Welles’ ‘War of the ...
Listeners in 1938 thought the fictional broadcast was a real news report. The year is 1938. The cost of a gallon of gas is 10 cents. Franklin D. Roosevelt is president. The primary medium of ...
The night before Halloween 1938, 87 years ago, a radio broadcast by filmmaker and actor Orson Welles sent shockwaves through the world. The hauntingly fictional tale detailed an alien invasion on ...
In 1938, when CBS aired the infamous alien invasion broadcast play on Oct. 30, national press stirred the pot to claim it caused mass hysteria while more farsighted columnists saw it as a call toward ...
Oct. 30, 1938, was a cool autumn Sunday evening. Baltimoreans were still celebrating Johns Hopkins’ win over Haverford College, 7-6, after Charlie Rudo made a stunning 80-yard touchdown run in the ...
Seventy-five years ago, Orson Welles terrorized Americans coast to coast with his now infamous radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s science-fiction classic, The War of the Worlds. The Halloween broadcast ...
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There might not be a more misunderstood moment in the 20th century than Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the ...
Who among my savvy readers well-versed in the intricacies of broadcast journalism history -- which is to say pretty much every one of you -- knows that exactly 75 years ago Wednesday, Orson Welles' ...
In 1937, 22-year-old Orson Welles was already a creative force, a prodigious writer and director for stage and radio via his Mercury Theatre. On May 6, he had listened, along with thousands of ...
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