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What in the Worlds? Civil War Veteran and Journalist’s Close Encounter with ‘Martians’ Near Lodi in 1896
On the eve of Halloween in 1938, Orson Welles mystified six million American listeners with his radio spoof of “War of The Worlds,” based upon H.G. Wells’ novel by the same name and published 40 years earlier. Vanity Fair magazine in 2015 called the broadcast “the world’s first viral fake-news media event.” Ever since that […]