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Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel, broadcast by CBS on 30 October 1938, staged partly as a series of breaking news bulletins reporting a Martian landing in New Jersey. Newspaper accounts of mass panic were greatly exaggerated, a point modern scholarship stresses, but the broadcast became the standing exhibit for the power of the medium and the question of listener trust.

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1938 1
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United States 1
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Orson Welles, Figures

Directed and narrated by Welles for the Mercury Theatre on the Air; Howard Koch wrote the script.

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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
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