“War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast
On Halloween morning, 1938, Orson Welles awoke to find himself the most talked about man in America. The night before, Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air had performed a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, converting the 40-year-old novel into fake news bulletins describing a Martian invasion of New Jersey. Some listeners mistook those bulletins for the real thing, and their anxious phone calls to police, newspaper offices, and radio stations convinced many journalists that the show had caused nationwide hysteria. By the next morning, the 23-year-old Welles’s face and name were on the front pages of newspapers coast-to-coast, along with headlines about the mass panic his CBS broadcast had allegedly inspired.
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After 9/11 The First public Gathering of a large group of people was in Houston , Texas and a WWF Smackdown Event. Say what you want about pro wrestling but they Love their fans and they Love Their Country.
The Ring Announcer Lilian Garcia is a tremendous singer, and she was asked to sing the National Anthem. Knowing full well the amount of people who would see her sing that night , at first she did not want to do it for fear of messing it up. But she was convinced to do it and here is that result.
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