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"War of the Worlds": Behind the 1938 Radio Show Panic
Article from 2005 about the October 1938 radio "adaptation, by Orson Welles's Mercury Theater group, of a science fiction novel written 40 years earlier: 'The War of the Worlds,' by H.G. Wells." The radio play, "narrated by Orson Welles, had been written and performed to sound like a real news broadcast about an invasion from Mars," and caused some listeners to panic. From National Geographic News.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0617_050617_warworlds.html
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