On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles's radio play "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provokes mass panic.

The true story of the night that Orson Welles broadcast his version of H.G. Welles' classic ''The War of the Worlds'' on the radio. It was designed to be as realistic as possible, and it worked--many people were fooled into thinking that an alien invasion was actually happening.—Murray Chapman <[email protected]>