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A portrait of Orson Welles. -Courtesy of pixabay.com

Heller: How Orson Welles’ ‘War of The Worlds’ broadcast influenced fake news and mass panic

Alexander Heller October 31, 2018

Before he was immortalized in film, Orson Welles became a household name through what many consider one of the most infamous broadcasts of all time: the radio dramatization of H.G. Wells’ "The War of...

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