Orson Welles And The War of the Worlds
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OCTOBER 30, 1938
On the night of October 30, 1938, CBS Radio was broadcasting "La Cumparsita", a Spanish tango. The orchestra was conducted by Ramon Raquello, and had been playing live from the Meridian Room at the Park Plaza in New York City. Within minutes, a reporter interrupted the radio transmission with a very urgent, fearful message: Earth was under attack. The end of the world was upon them, and the play-by-play descriptions of it were coming to them …
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…Cantril, Hadley. "The Invasion of Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic." Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1940. Clark, I.F. "Of Men and Martians." Science Fiction Studies. 1998. DePauw University. Retrieved April 10, 2004. <http://depauw.edu/sfs/reviews_pages/r45.htm. Taylor, Tom. "FCC Censorship of Radio Shock-Jocks" Vigilant.tv. April 2004. Retrieved April 10, 2004. <http://vigilant.tv/article/2330. Bogdanovich, Peter. Excerpt from "This is Orson Welles" New York. Harper Collins Publishers, Inc. 1992.
