Halloween

...with. As Orson Welles said the night back in 1938 when he literally terrified the nation with a radio broadcast that convinced many that Martians had invaded earth: "If your doorbell rings and nobody's there -- it's just Halloween." Have an...

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...and panicked the nation with his famous War of the Worlds broadcast. As we know, the Halloween episode contained a series of fake news bulletins about a Martian invasion. Some listeners mistook it for the real thing. Tomorrow War of the...

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...ago we asked the question: Could the mass hysteria of the 1938 "War of the Worlds" scandal, in which a Halloween radio drama orchestrated by actor Orson Welles was mistaken for a real announcement of Martians landing in New Jersey, still take...

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...said. Fallest plays the main character, which is the same part Welles himself voiced. Halloween night will mark Fallest's radio debut. Script updates include references to technology and conversational diction. The play's...

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...the Great Depression. He told the E-Street Club, a group of old-time Post employees, about Halloween night in 1938 when Orson Welles broadcast "War of the Worlds," a science fiction story of invading aliens. "We were sitting around the...

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...moved to 22 Garfield Place, which would come to be known as the Cuvier Press Club . Among other activities, the Club held an annual Halloween parade, which was attended by a crowd of approximately 50,000 in downtown Cincinnati, all of...

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...racism is on the rise. Democratic Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson, said Joe Wilson shouting "You lie!" could signal the return of "folks putting on white hoods and white uniforms again, riding through the countryside." • In the late '80s, when...

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...seem to get an early start. No single April 1 hoax may have the heft of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds stunt the night before Halloween in 1938, and there aren't usually chores involved like the ritual post-Halloween clean-up of...

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...Mercury Players to supporting roles. There was a growing schism between Welles, still reaping the rewards of his Halloween night notoriety, and Houseman, who became more like an employee than a partner. The primary writer, as during the...

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