Date 30/10/2015 - News People
Mischief night, October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre group performed a very realistic radio-play of H.G. Wells? classic novel, War of the Worlds. The Halloween prank radio show sounded like an actual alien invasion was happening in New Jersey, which stirred up a great deal of panic at the time. The newspapers pounced on the opportunity to criticize radio, a medium papers were losing revenue to, and scored a minor victory for newsprint-stained, cigar-chompin? publishers everywhere. Orson Welles went on to become one of the most acclaimed film directors of all time.
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