Long before Donald Trump used the term “fake news” to complain about coverage he didn’t like, Orson Welles mastered the art of actual fake news. Welles’ 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The War ...

The night before Halloween 1938, 87 years ago, a radio broadcast by filmmaker and actor Orson Welles sent shockwaves through the world. The hauntingly fictional tale detailed an alien invasion on ...

In 1937, 22-year-old Orson Welles was already a creative force, a prodigious writer and director for stage and radio via his Mercury Theatre. On May 6, he had listened, along with thousands of ...

Before the fake news of the Onion, before fake TV newscasters such as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, there was Orson Welles and his 1938 dramatization of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. No ...

The invasion began 125 years ago, got reinforcements on the night before Halloween in 1938 and still occupies cultural territory in the 21st century. In 1898, H.G. Wells published “The War of the ...

Long before Donald Trump used the term “fake news” to complain about coverage he didn't like, Orson Welles mastered the art of actual fake news. Welles' 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' “The War ...