Orson Wells, “The War of the Worlds,” and the Panic that Never Was
Today is the 85th anniversary of Orson Welles’s legendary broadcast of H. G. Welles’ The War of the Worlds, a terrifying broadcast that was less terrifying than you might think it was. You probably know a lot about the Welles broadcast, a dramatization of H. G. Welles’s novel which he hosted for CBS’s Mercury Theater. […]