from New York Public Radio in accordance with our Terms of Use. invasion, then he turned around and told them that it was all a joke. In his statement, he certainly suggests that but if you read it, it seems like he was actually referring to a statement he made a year earlier where he was calling radio producers who terrorized children and he doesn’t actually name Orson Welles by name. ARCHIVE, TV broadcast montage: Right now at 11, a night of shopping turned into a night of fear...swarming over borders, flooding cities and towns...Muslim immigrants ...teens texting and driving, it’s a deadly mix… terror in the toilet… and sinkholes and landslides… python in the potty... A rabid baby goat terrorist working at one of our airports?

Some shape is rising out of the pit. ROBERT KRULWICH: Marge! TONY FIELDS: And people start hurling the rocks at the station, at the windows. They all ran outside, found a taxi cab, threw the kids in (INAUDIBLE) ran behind the taxi cab. While thousands of radio listeners were surprised, or even frightened, by the "War of the Worlds" broadcast, others were angry. JORGE RIBADENEIRA: Panico en la calle de quito que ella ya no pude hacer nada tuvimos que salir. what to expect on arrival. The last guy on the air that night was a man by the name of Luis Beltran (sp?).
And-and you’ll understand why in a second. ARCHIVE, Pearson: At any time, Mr. Phillips. JAD ABUMRAD: Now, before we ahead any further-before we go any further, let me ask a really basic question here, I mean, we’re dealing with a play, a radio play. ARCHIVE, Welles: This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character, to assure you that the “War of the Worlds” has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be. JAD ABUMRAD: Because by then a strange meteor had landed. ROBERT KRULWICH: Thanks to the folks at WKBW Buffalo for that. You’re absolutely right, it is incredible. Meanwhile the myth of the 1938 invasion continues. The War of the World tells the story of a Martian invasion of Britain, but Welles decided to change that to just outside of New York, in a small town of Grovers Mill, New Jersey. JAD ABUMRAD: Wow. Maria, are you there?

Just a bystander. JASON LOVIGLIO: This was the beginning of the formatting of fear, the formatting of crisis and so people go the news-not to be afraid but to be afraid and then to be reassured.

Your shoelaces will kill you after this message. Everybody knows it didn’t happen. About out of every 12 people who heard the broadcast thought it was true and that some percentage of that 1 million people ran out of their homes, towels over their faces, clutching children, breaking limbs.

continues its expensive coverage of the European crisis. JAD ABUMRAD: Where they landed on the Mercury Theater on the Air, already in progress, where they stayed put.

JAD ABUMRAD: Yeah, we were all, you know, glued to the TV in real life, grasping at these pieces of news, trying to figure out what was going on and that was very much-I think what they were trying to create in the broadcast but now, many years later, what I’m really left with is a question. the aliens may be able to inflict memory loss on human beings. ARCHIVE, Mercury Theater: The government meteorological bureau has requested the large observatories of the country to keep an astronomical watch on any further disturbances occurring on the planet Mars. [Listen to the 'War of the Worlds' Radio Broadcast!]. DANIEL MYRICK: No regrets on people not wanting to go camping. ROBERT KRULWICH: They get lost, they bump into the witch and then they die or they think they die, at least you never see them again. ): And, uh, from there he jumped to the ground but before he jumped he was pleading to the crowd to, I guess, catch him but they didn’t. It tells you that we can’t help ourselves. Or-or? MICHAEL SOCOLOW: But if you were to actually find out whose TVs were on live at 9:48 in the morning that day and who was actually watching there would be a discrepancy in that number. JAD ABUMRAD: Why would Orson Welles and his posse of troubadours start their play this way? ROBERT KRULWICH: Well, Professor Loviglio says, if that is really what Welles was trying to do, if you believe that, well, then he failed-actually he worse than failed.

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