“The War of the Worlds”—Orson Welles’s hyper-realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth—is broadcast on the radio, causing panic among some.
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On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in…