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Orson Welles
And
The War of the Worlds
Title: Orson Welles
And
The War of the Worlds
Category: History / North American History
Details: Words: 2299 | Pages: 9.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Orson Welles
And
The War of the Worlds
OCTOBER 30, 1938
On the night of October 30, 1938, CBS Radio was broadcasting "La Cumparsita", a Spanish tango. The orchestra was conducted by Ramon Raquello, and had been playing live from the Meridian Room at the Park Plaza in New York City. Within minutes, a reporter interrupted the radio transmission with a very urgent, fearful message: Earth was under attack. The end of the world was upon them, and the play-by-play descriptions of it were coming to them …showed first 75 words of 2299 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2299 total…Cantril, Hadley. "The Invasion of Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic." Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1940.
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Bogdanovich, Peter. Excerpt from "This is Orson Welles" New York. Harper Collins Publishers, Inc. 1992.
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