So how did so many people actually believe that Martians were invading? For starters, we didn’t have a clear idea of what was on the surface of Mars yet. The space age was still decades away. So for ...

Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the U.S. heard a startling report of mysterious creatures and ...

Seventy-five years ago, Orson Welles terrorized Americans coast to coast with his now infamous radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s science-fiction classic, The War of the Worlds. The Halloween broadcast ...

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.

It was the night before Halloween, October 30, 1938. Radios glowed in living rooms across America as families settled in for what they thought was another quiet Monday broadcast. At 8 p.m. ET, CBS’s ...

Step back in time to October 30, 1938, and relive the legendary broadcast that sent the nation into panic! This immersive 90-minute production (with no intermission) recreates the infamous radio drama ...

Seventy-one years after Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time alien-invasion scenario, The Fourth Kind writer/director Olatunde ...

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (ETC) will open its 47th season, themed “Truth and Illusion,” with War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast, a gripping theatrical recreation of the 1938 Orson ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, Oct. 30, 1938, “The War of the Worlds” was broadcast on national radio. The voice of that broadcast was none other than Kenosha-born Orson Welles. He was later ...

“The best of the postwar American science-fiction films; the Martian machines have a quality of real terror, their sinister apparitions, prowlings and pulverisings are spectacularly well done, and the ...

New Jersey’s drone war is entering a dangerous new phase with residents firing lasers at civilian aircraft they mistake for drones. The situation evokes Orson Welles’ 1938 “War of the Worlds” ...

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 ...