SOURCE: Slate
10-28-2013
tags: Orson Welles, Collective History
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10-28-2013
The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic
Breaking Newstags: Orson Welles, Collective History
Wednesday marks the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles’ electrifying War of the Worlds broadcast, in which the Mercury Theatre on the Air enacted a Martian invasion of Earth. “Upwards of a million people, [were] convinced, if only briefly, that the United States was being laid waste by alien invaders,” narrator Oliver Platt informs us in the new PBS documentary commemorating the program. The panic inspired by Welles made War of the Worlds perhaps the most notorious event in American broadcast history...
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