History Boiz
The War of the Worlds, 1938
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On October 30, 1938, a young virtuoso, Orson Welles, produced a realistic radio broadcast of a full-scale alien invasion that ignited widespread panic across America. Or so the story goes. Happy Halloween! Sources: A Brad Schwartz. Broadcast Hysteria : Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News. Hill And Wang, A Division Of Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 2015.