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War of the Worlds

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UFOfreak

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Was anyone here alive when the first live radio cast of this event happen when so many people thought it was real and killed them selfs ?

 
Originally posted by: UFOfreak
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: UFOfreak
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Um...no.

Why do you ask? Trying to get that post count up?
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I want to know what happen to one of my father's friends.
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Why don't you just ask your father?
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Well he does not know either. Thats why we are trying to find out.
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What makes you think anyone here would know? 😕

Nevermind...don't answer that. I don't really want to know.
 
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Orson Welles' famous radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds was performed by Mercury Theatre on the Air as a Halloween special on October 30, 1938. The live broadcast reportedly frightened many listeners into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. Although it sometimes stated there were many disclaimers pointing out the fictionality of the invasion, the true story is that Welles was asked to make such disclaimers but refused, only doing so at the very end of the feature.

 
I listened to a a copy of it and was amazed that people believed it was real when it said that it was a dramatization repeatedly. There is a stretch where they don't say it for a couple of minutes, but still, it wasn't that convincing.
 
Originally posted by: Number1
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Orson Welles' famous radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds was performed by Mercury Theatre on the Air as a Halloween special on October 30, 1938. The live broadcast reportedly frightened many listeners into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. Although it sometimes stated there were many disclaimers pointing out the fictionality of the invasion, the true story is that Welles was asked to make such disclaimers but refused, only doing so at the very end of the feature.
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Maybe I listened to a rebroadcast, but there were many disclaimers in the beginning of my recording.
 
Originally posted by: preslove
Originally posted by: Number1
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Orson Welles' famous radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds was performed by Mercury Theatre on the Air as a Halloween special on October 30, 1938. The live broadcast reportedly frightened many listeners into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. Although it sometimes stated there were many disclaimers pointing out the fictionality of the invasion, the true story is that Welles was asked to make such disclaimers but refused, only doing so at the very end of the feature.
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Maybe I listened to a rebroadcast, but there were many disclaimers in the beginning of my recording.
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I quoted this from the wiki article
 
Originally posted by: UFOfreak
Was anyone here alive when the first live radio cast of this event happen when so many people thought it was real and killed them selfs ?
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so many killed themselves?

I think you are misinformed....

Were you ever called ducknuts by an alien?
 
Originally posted by: Number1
Originally posted by: preslove
Originally posted by: Number1
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Orson Welles' famous radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds was performed by Mercury Theatre on the Air as a Halloween special on October 30, 1938. The live broadcast reportedly frightened many listeners into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. Although it sometimes stated there were many disclaimers pointing out the fictionality of the invasion, the true story is that Welles was asked to make such disclaimers but refused, only doing so at the very end of the feature.
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Maybe I listened to a rebroadcast, but there were many disclaimers in the beginning of my recording.
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I quoted this from the wiki article
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Heh, I read it. The first paragraph is poorly written (Although it sometimes stated there were many disclaimers) and contradicts a later paragraph:
While there were repeated statements concerning the fictional nature of the program, no such statement was broadcast between the 12 minute and 40 minute marks. In fact, the warning at the 40 minute mark is the only one that occurs after the actors start speaking in character, and before Welles breaks character at the end.
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There are quite a few dislcaimers before the 12 minute mark.

Well, that's wikipedia for you 🙂
 
Originally posted by: MS Dawn
So that's what they're telling people? That they were killing themselves? Silly humans!

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A little part of me dies everytime I read posts like this...yet I keep coming back. 😉
 
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