The War of the Worlds
In 1938, Orson Welles terrified listeners with his broadcast of the H. G. Wells novel, The War of the Worlds, a fictional account of a Martian invasion. You can read a transcript of the entire famous broadcast on The War of the Worlds site. Why do you think some people believed the broadcast was real? Do you think people today would believe such a broadcast? Why or why not? Record your answers in the Web Links Activity Log.