July 31, 2006 View Comments

War of the Worlds – 1938 Radio Show

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War of the Worlds – 1938 Radio Show, as narrated by Orson Welles.

Thanks to reader Scott for providing the link for today’s post. I haven’t listened to this yet but have been meaning to for some time.
It’s amazing to think that this simple radio play induced mass panic due to people thinking it was actually real. I mean, it can’t be as scary as Tom Cruise. Man, War of the Worlds the movie sucked*.

For more info on the history behind this broadcast, click here.

Later Bloggies

* Highlight below for spoilers for this movie
Let’s use the humans for fertilizer, right after killing most of them, which could also have been used for fertilzer. Also, even though we’ve been planning this invasion for millions of years, lets not bother to do any research on their biology. It’s not like they have any diseases that could kill us

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