Listeners in 1938 thought the fictional broadcast was a real news report. The year is 1938. The cost of a gallon of gas is 10 cents. Franklin D. Roosevelt is president. The primary medium of ...

Before Orson Welles, who died in October 1985, directed his masterpiece, "Citizen Kane," he became famous for his radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds." It was a radio broadcast that marked ...

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 1938, the Great Depression ravaged America, the world was on the brink of war, and Superman debuted. And on the night before Halloween that year, another event occurred that sent America into pure ...

Seventy-five years ago, on Oct. 30, 1938, mere hours before Halloween began, millions of Americans got the fright of a lifetime: Orson Welles, 23 at the time, performed a radio dramatization of H.G.

There’s an unfortunate timeliness to Orson Welles’ adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, with its deadly attacks on America and its evacuation of New York City. It doesn’t take much effort to ...