One of the country’s biggest overreactions occurred 76 years ago this week when on Oct. 30, 1938 a radio dramatization of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds was mistaken for an actual Mars invasion.
Just over 80 years ago, on Oct. 30, 1938, Orson Welles' radio dramatization of "The War of the Worlds" – H.G. Wells' tale of a Martian invasion of Earth – stirred panic among listeners across America, ...