History's Greatest Hoaxes - Season 1 Episode 4 War Of The Worlds
History's Greatest Hoaxes looks at Orson Welles's Mercury Theater radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel 'The War of the Worlds'. The simulated news broadcast convinced many Americans that an invasion by Martians was underway. Newspapers claimed that it led to a massive panic around the country, but was the original audience actually that large?
- Genre: Documentary
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- Keyword: scam, hoax
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