Image: Welles-Radio-Scare-1938-crop

Description: Photograph of Orson Welles, published following the radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" on The Mercury Theatre on the Air Caption reads as follows: In Radio Scare Here is Orson Welles, leader of the Mercury theater group which presented that too realistic nation-wide broadcast describing an imaginary invasion of the U.S. by an army from the planet Mars that frightened thousands of listeners all over the U.S.
Title: Welles-Radio-Scare-1938-crop
Credit: The Evening Journal, Washington, Iowa; Volume 45, Number 223, page 1
Author: The Evening Journal, Washington, Iowa (no photo credit given)
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