print email comment close "War of the Worlds": Behind the 1938 Radio Show Panic URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0617_050617_warworlds.html Description: Article from 2005 about the October 1938 radio "adaptation, by Orson Welles's Mercury Theater group, of a science fiction novel written 40 years earlier: 'The War of the Worlds,' by H.G. Wells." The radio play, "narrated by Orson Welles, had been written and performed to sound like a real news broadcast about an invasion from Mars," and caused some listeners to panic. From National Geographic News. Publisher: National Geographic Society Extra Keywords hoax Library of Congress Subject Headings: Broadcasting -- United States -- History Science fiction War of the worlds (Radio program) LII Database Information: Record 5564 created by Maria Brandt on 07/03/2005 Last modification on 08/03/2006 Published: 07/03/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/5564