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RE: War of the Worlds

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War of the Worlds (radio broadcast from 1938) -1

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Listen to a Web stream of the original War of the Worlds aired in 1938.

Weblink (at 20:00 ET, 30th October)

-- Edited by Blobrana on Friday 30th of October 2009 12:55:17 AM

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"It is reported that at 8:50 p.m. a huge, flaming object, believed to be a meteorite, fell on a farm in the neighbourhood of Grovers Mill, New Jersey, 22 miles from Trenton."

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Audiences attending SUNY Oswego's production of "War of the Worlds," opening Oct. 14, will find sounds and storytelling designed to bring them into the action.

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The calls starting coming in to the San Diego Police Department not long after 5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 30, 1938 ---- 70 years ago today.
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America panics as Welles says: Mars attacks!
Its gone down in history as The Night The Martians Came that Sunday evening 70 years ago this week when Halloween horror hit America as never before, when thousands fled their homes in terror, some even trying to kill themselves, as invaders from the Red Planet began their conquest of Earth after landing within death ray distance of New York.

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