Martians have invaded Grover's Mill, New Jersey: 75th Anniversary
'War of the Worlds' Panic Broadcast: 75th Anniversary
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Wednesday evening will mark the 75th anniversary of the legendary Orson Welles' radio broadcast, "The War of the Worlds," which created the illusion in the minds of some radio listeners that Earth was actually being invaded by beings from the Planet Mars! Broadcast on the day before Halloween (1938 October 30) as an episode of the radio drama anthology series, "The Mercury Theatre on the Air" on the CBS Radio Network (including then-Pittsburgh CBS Radio Network affiliate WJAS-AM 1300), the broadcast was an adaptation of the H.G. Wells science fiction novel by the same name, which had been published in 1898.
More than half of the first part of the 60-minute broadcast consisted of realistic-sounding, yet fictional radio news bulletins and on-the-scene remote broadcasts from fictional news reporters. Although the beginning of the broadcast made it clear that the program was simply a dramatization, many people had begun listening to the program well after the program had begun. Hence, some of these people were in a panic, seriously thinking that the radio news bulletins were real, and that spaceships and beings from the Planet Mars had actually invaded the tiny hamlet of Grover's Mill, New Jersey, on their way to New York City.
Although people in New Jersey and New York were particularly alarmed, the nationwide broadcast caused fear from coast-to-coast. The Associated Press news wire service reported: ............
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