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☞Ladies & gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin… ☞Today in History -- On today’s date 84 years ago, beginning at 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on Sunday, October 30, 1938, the infamous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast caused widespread fear & panic when listeners mistook the adaptation of the 1898 science-fiction novel “The War of the Worlds” by Herbert George “H. G.” Wells (1866-1946) for actual breaking news. ☞Directed & narrated by actor, director, writer, & producer George Orson Welles (1915-1985), “The War of the Worlds” was a 62-minute broadcast for his “Mercury Theatre on the Air” that was presented as a series of simulated news bulletins which unintentionally suggested to some listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. ☞In the aftermath of the broadcast, there was widespread outrage in the media. The news-bulletin format of the program was described as cruelly dece...