Mercury Theatre Presents: Orson Wells In "The War of the Worlds"

Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds was performed by Mercury Theatre on the Air as a Halloween special on October 30, 1938. The live broadcast frightened many listeners into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress.

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