That was no Martian. It's Halloween.

[LostLassie]

Happy 80th anniversary of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opi...-worlds-radio-anniversary-20181030-story.html

“Hysteria among radio listeners throughout the nation and actual panicky evacuations from sections of the New York metropolitan area resulted from a too-realistic radio broadcast last night describing a fictitious and devastating visitation of strange men from Mars,” the Associated Press reported. “Excited and weeping persons across all of the country swamped newspaper and police switchboards with the question: ‘It is true?’”

 

[ExpatAkronite]

Happy 80th anniversary of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opi...-worlds-radio-anniversary-20181030-story.html

And just over 10 years later more disastrous results in Ecuador.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/cecilia-alvear/martians-land-in-quito_b_166776.html

 

[Crump's brother]

And just over 10 years later more disastrous results in Ecuador.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/cecilia-alvear/martians-land-in-quito_b_166776.html

Thanks for this. Spent my senior year at La Católica in Quito. I had no idea this happened.

 

[djtidebuck]

Happy 80th anniversary of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opi...-worlds-radio-anniversary-20181030-story.html

A New thread, wow, so refreshing. Some of these threads should have been archived 5 years ago