Dead Air: The Night Orson Welles Terrified America

Based on his just-released book Dead Air: The Night Orson Welles Terrified America, William Hazelgrove uses the actual broadcast and many media stories to detail the great Halloween hoax of 1938. That’s when 23 year-old Orson Welles broadcast to the world that Martians had landed in New Jersey and were exterminating humans with heat ray guns and poisonous gas. The coast-to-coast terror takes viewers on a wild ride through America as people run for the hills and run out of restaurants, theatres, and churches believing the world had ended. Includes Q&A.

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