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DAY Today in History cover for 30 October 1938, featuring Orson Welles at a CBS microphone, a female news presenter, a vintage radio, dramatic newspaper headlines and fictional Martian war machines from The War of the Worlds broadcast.

War of the Worlds 1938: The Radio Panic | DAY History

On 30 October 1938, Orson Welles's War of the Worlds radio drama frightened some American listeners. Discover…