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In 1938 the Mercury Players, led by Orson Welles, broadcast a radio
drama based on H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds . The drama purported
to be a news broadcast from New Jersey, where Martians had begun
an invasion of earth. But thousands of listeners, mistaking it for a real
event, were driven to near-panic.
Orson Welles (1915­1985) had a varied career in radio, movies, live
theatre, and as a writer and director. He is best known for directing
the movie Citizen Kane (1941), narrating the March of Time news
series (1934), and for forming the Mercury Theatre (1937).