There might not be a more misunderstood moment in the 20th century than Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the ...

Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the U.S. heard a startling report of mysterious creatures and ...

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So how did so many people actually believe that Martians were invading? For starters, we didn’t have a clear idea of what was on the surface of Mars yet. The space age was still decades away. So for ...

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A particularly realistic radio play adaptation of HG Wells' sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds caused mass panic when it was broadcast on October 30, 1938. Or at least, that's how the story goes. The ...

There’s an unfortunate timeliness to Orson Welles’ adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, with its deadly attacks on America and its evacuation of New York City. It doesn’t take much effort to ...

Just over 80 years ago, on Oct. 30, 1938, Orson Welles' radio dramatization of "The War of the Worlds" – H.G. Wells' tale of a Martian invasion of Earth – stirred panic among listeners across America, ...

For years, it was a mystery to me how people could have fallen for Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast on Oct. 30, 1938. Using sound effects, his own flair for drama and a compelling ...

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In 1938, the Great Depression ravaged America, the world was on the brink of war, and Superman debuted. And on the night before Halloween that year, another event occurred that sent America into pure ...