"On Halloween night 1938, Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells fantasy, The War of the Worlds. What listeners heard sounded so realistic that at least a million were frightened by word that "strange creatures" from Mars had landed in central New Jersey and…
In 1938 Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds', causing panic amongst listeners. This text shows that the impact of the broadcast had less to do with what went out over the air than with the 'standards of judgment' people did or did not …
