In 1938, the Great Depression ravaged America, the world was on the brink of war, and Superman debuted. And on the night before Halloween that year, another event occurred that sent America into pure ...

The night before Halloween 1938, 87 years ago, a radio broadcast by filmmaker and actor Orson Welles sent shockwaves through the world. The hauntingly fictional tale detailed an alien invasion on ...

There might not be a more misunderstood moment in the 20th century than Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the ...

Seventy-five years ago, on Oct. 30, 1938, mere hours before Halloween began, millions of Americans got the fright of a lifetime: Orson Welles, 23 at the time, performed a radio dramatization of H.G.

War of the Worlds is a new opera performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and on the streets of Los Angeles. Orson Welles' 1938 "fake news" radio program led millions of panicked listeners to believe ...

It was the night before Halloween, October 30, 1938. Radios glowed in living rooms across America as families settled in for what they thought was another quiet Monday broadcast. At 8 p.m. ET, CBS’s ...

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (ETC) will open its 47th season, themed “Truth and Illusion,” with War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast, a gripping theatrical recreation of the 1938 Orson ...

“The best of the postwar American science-fiction films; the Martian machines have a quality of real terror, their sinister apparitions, prowlings and pulverisings are spectacularly well done, and the ...

So how did so many people actually believe that Martians were invading? For starters, we didn’t have a clear idea of what was on the surface of Mars yet. The space age was still decades away. So for ...