The War of the Worlds broadcast A Halloween episode broadcast live at 8 pm Eastern on 30 October 1938 over CBS radio, telling a Martian invasion as news bulletins.
1 Sources 7 Connections Orson Welles At 23 he directed and narrated the broadcast. He apologized at a news conference the next morning.
1 Sources 1 Connections The Mercury Theatre on the Air An unsponsored CBS cultural programme with a relatively small audience. The War of the Worlds was its 17th episode.
1 Sources 2 Connections The War of the Worlds (novel) The source novel by H. G. Wells. The broadcast moved the setting from 19th-century England to the 20th-century United States.
1 Sources 2 Connections Howard Koch The writer who adapted the novel for radio. He died in 1995.
1 Sources 1 Connections Grovers Mill The New Jersey village where the broadcast's Martians landed. A bronze monument was dedicated there in 1988.
1 Sources 1 Connections CBS The network. It insisted on about 28 changes in phrasing, such as Langley Field becoming Langham Field.
1 Sources 3 Connections The newspaper coverage At least 12,500 articles appeared within three weeks. Newspapers exaggerated the rare cases, which has been read as a way to discredit radio, a rival that had taken their advertising.
1 Sources 1 Connections The Invasion from Mars A 1940 Princeton study estimating that about six million people heard the broadcast and 1.2 million were frightened or disturbed. Its methods have been criticised as seriously flawed.
1 Sources 1 Connections Federal Communications Commission It decided not to punish Welles or CBS.
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