On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles’s radio adaptation and dramatization of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds was broadcast over the radio. Welles along with his Mercury Theater Company began the show at 8 p.m. Listeners mistook the reading as a real-life event that was taking place and panic was spread nationwide. The event was investigated by the Federal Communications Commission and found that no law was broken.
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