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CBS News Radio flashback: Orson Welles' 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast
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CBS News reflects on the 1938 'War of the Worlds' radio broadcast by Orson Welles that caused public panic when listeners mistook the dramatic reading of H.G. Wells' science fiction novel for an actual news report about an alien invasion.
CBS News Radio flashback: Orson Welles' 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast
On Oct. 30, 1938, CBS News Radio listeners were sent into a frenzy listening to Orson Welles' reading of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," thinking it was a real broadcast detailing an alien invasion. CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns introduces the fictional, now-iconic breaking news bulletin.
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