October 24 - October 30
'W ar of the Worlds'
rattles America
October 30, 1938
Martians invade New Jersey -- or at least that is what thousands of radio listeners thought after Orson Welles produced a dramatization of the sci-fi classic, "War of the Worlds." The broadcast, occurring a day before Halloween, marks a creative and media milestone, fooling a nation and showing radio's possibilities.

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