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That was no Martian. It's Halloween.

LostLassie

Am I Allowed To Say That?
'17 BPCFFB II Champ
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?’”





 
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