Panic Over ‘War of the Worlds’

The night before Halloween 1938, 87 years ago, a radio broadcast by filmmaker and actor Orson Welles sent shockwaves through ...

‘War of the Worlds’ and separating fact from campaign fiction

Orson Welles' trickery during his 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast — and newspapers' response to it — is an early lesson in ...

October 30, 1938- ‘War of the Worlds’ broadcast on national radio

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, Oct. 30, 1938, “The War of the Worlds” was broadcast on national radio. The voice of that ...

If China invades Taiwan, these islands would be on the front line. But there's little panic here

CBC News visited Taiwan’s Kinmen islands, which are just a few kilometres across the bay from the Chinese city of Xiamen. The ...

This Day in History: The ‘War of the Worlds’ scare happened on Oct. 30, 1938

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - 23 year old Orson Wells was tapped to produce a live episode of the radio show Mercury Theater on Oct.
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Truth or Fake News? ‘War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast’

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (ETC) will open its 47th season, themed Truth and Illusion, with “War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast,” written by Joe Landry and directed by Jamie ...
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Carpinteria radio station to broadcast “War of the Worlds”

The Carpinteria Valley Radio will present Orson Welles’ legendary radio broadcast “War of the Worlds” in its entirety on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 6 p.m., the station announced this week.