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Invasion from Mars Orson Welles’s broadcast; terrified a credulous America (1938). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 468] See : Fearsomeness How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Yes, I remember Welles' invasion from Mars, the announcement of the raid on Pearl Harbor, and Toscanini conducting (not to mention the great blizzard of 1947). The arrival of the West must have struck most natives as awesome, unimaginable, terrifying, and sometimes wonderful -like an invasion from Mars. I was just a kid and it was just me and the engineer that night" at the CBS affiliate that aired Welles' Mercury Theater show portraying an invasion from Mars. |
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