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Date: 19991031
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What some have come to mistakenly regard as an elaborate Halloween hoax was in reality nothing more than Orson Welles's vivid radio dramatization of the H.G. Wells tale "The War of the Worlds." The broadcast was so immediate and realistic, however, that many Americans actually believed New Jersey was under violent attack by Martians. An excerpt from The Post of Oct. 31, 1938:

By Marshall Andrews

Americans know today the chilling terror of sudden war, of meeting invasion from ...

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