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Date
2017-09-04
Creation Date
1971-01-01
Description
163 p. : illus. ; 18 cm.
Digital Collection
Irene P. Ertman Science Fiction Book Collection
Object Type
Book
Identifier
ertman_084
Image Format
Physical Object
Repository
Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library
Publisher Digital
Avon Books
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Transcript
On October 30, 1938, the planet Earth was invaded by men from Mars
On that unforgettable night, Orson Welles and his fellow actors broadcast a radio dramatization of H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. The show lasted forty-five minutes ...
The story of the nationwide panic that followed reads like science fiction. Thousands fled their homes in panic. Highways were jammed. One woman in Pennsylvania tried to poison herself. How could so many have been so prepared to be terrorized?
Howard Koch, the man who wrote the radio play, has compiled the story of the broadcast itself, and the panic that followed, and offers a fascinating examination of one of the most astonishing phenomena in history!
