ocr: IN THE FALL of 1938, Orson Welles, the brilliant young director off Mercury Theatre on the Air, came up with what he thought wouldt an appropriately entertaining program for the. night before Hallow He would play a radio dramatization of the H.G. Wells novel, The Meur ofthe Worids, which describes a terrifying invasion ofEarth by techno- logically-advanced monsters from Mars. Little did he know the true terror it would induce in a Depression-weary and paranoid nation. S - TOSNWBAU
