It’s about that time again. The anniversary of the classic radio broadcast of the Orson Welles drama “War of the Worlds.” Halloween eve 1938, 23-year-old Welles took to the airwaves for an hour to describe a martian invasion in such detail that it caused nationwide hysteria. That was according to newspaper headlines the next day.
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