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English: Photograph of Orson Welles, published following the radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" on The Mercury Theatre on the Air

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In Radio Scare
Here is Orson Welles, leader of the Mercury theater group which presented that too realistic nation-wide broadcast describing an imaginary invasion of the U.S. by an army from the planet Mars that frightened thousands of listeners all over the U.S.

Date

2 November 1938 publication — photo dates to 1937

Photograph was published in newspapers in November 1937 in connection with the Mercury Theatre production of Caesar

Source

The Evening Journal, Washington, Iowa; Volume 45, Number 223, page 1

Author

The Evening Journal, Washington, Iowa (no photo credit given)

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