Orson Welles, Archibald MacLeish and William Robson performing the radio drama Air Raid. - NYPL Digital Collections
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Terror spread by radio play! Read the Telegraph's 1938 report on Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast
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Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' Broadcast 1938 and Ominous Echoes In Media – The Hollywood Reporter
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Orson Welles' War of the Worlds panic myth: The infamous radio broadcast did not cause a nationwide hysteria.
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The Fake News of Orson Welles: The War of the Worlds at 80 | The National Endowment for the Humanities
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