INVASION U.S.A.

Don't touch that dial - it's the 70th anniversary of the Martian invasion concocted by Orson Welles
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When Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre presented their adaptation of HG Wells War of the Worlds, Halloween Eve,  October 30, 1938, listeners who came in late missed the opening and thought the early radio shockumentary was the real thing.

For a nation beset by overseas war news, economic depression and rampant fear of the future, this invasion from Mars seemed all too real to listeners who already faced fear itself..

Check out this video (below) for the truth about the night that panicked America.

Oh, if you think it can't happen again, think again. 

Just substitute the word "internet" for "radio".