There might not be a more misunderstood moment in the 20th century than Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. Pop culture has continuously repeated the story of the radio ...

In 1938, the Great Depression ravaged America, the world was on the brink of war, and Superman debuted. And on the night before Halloween that year, another event occurred that sent America into pure ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, Oct. 30, 1938, “The War of the Worlds” was broadcast on national radio. The voice of that broadcast was none other than Kenosha-born Orson Welles. He was later ...

In 1938, Orson Welles hosted a radio version of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” that reportedly sent listeners into a panic by treating the alien invasion as a breaking news broadcast. Skip forward to ...