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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1047620" data-attributes="member: 38206">On this day, 30 Oct. 1938, Orson Welles, known to radio audiences as The Shadow, presented his famous dramatization of H.G. Wells’ The War on the Worlds on CBS’s Mercury Theater at 8 p.m. The show was set up as a music program interrupted by news bulletins saying that Martians had landed near&nbsp;Princeton, New Jersey. Though a disclaimer was broadcast several times throughout the hourlong program, most people did not pay&nbsp;attention&nbsp; to the explanation telling them that the story was fictional and a radio fabrication.&nbsp;Even the newspaper program guides&nbsp; printed the warning.&nbsp;But thousands paid no attention. Some folks, in fact, got pretty desperate when they heard the ‘news’ that the world&nbsp; was&nbsp; coming to an end.&nbsp;They rushed out of their homes with handkerchiefs covering their mouths to guard against Martian gas.&nbsp;They clogged phone lines, caused traffic jams and checked into hospitals in shock. In just one hour, Orson Welles panicked the majority of the populace with his version of War of the Worlds. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 1047620, member: 38206"] [B]On this day, 30 Oct. 1938, Orson Welles, known to radio audiences as [I]The Shadow[/I], presented his famous dramatization of H.G. Wells’ The War on the Worlds on CBS’s [I]Mercury Theater[/I] at 8 p.m. The show was set up as a music program interrupted by news bulletins saying that Martians had landed near Princeton, New Jersey. Though a disclaimer was broadcast several times throughout the hourlong program, most people did not pay attention to the explanation telling them that the story was fictional and a radio fabrication. Even the newspaper program guides printed the warning. But thousands paid no attention. Some folks, in fact, got pretty desperate when they heard the ‘news’ that the world was coming to an end. They rushed out of their homes with handkerchiefs covering their mouths to guard against Martian gas. They clogged phone lines, caused traffic jams and checked into hospitals in shock. [/B][B]In just one hour, Orson Welles panicked the majority of the populace with his version of [I]War of the Worlds[/I]. [/B] [/QUOTE]

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