A visit to Grovers Mill, New Jersey, site of Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' invasion
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On Oct. 30, 1938, at 8 p.m. Eastern, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre broadcast the infamous “War of the Worlds” radio drama on the CBS network, reporting that aliens had invaded Grovers Mill, New Jersey. The menace grew throughout the broadcast as live music from “Ramon Raquello and His Orchestra” was interrupted by increasingly ominous news bulletins that chronicled a frightening alien invasion that spread well beyond the community outside Princeton, a smoke-choked reporter delivering vivid dispatches of the horror until he takes his dying breath.
A visit to Grovers Mill, New Jersey, site of Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' invasion
A visit to Grovers Mill, New Jersey, site of…
A visit to Grovers Mill, New Jersey, site of Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' invasion
On Oct. 30, 1938, at 8 p.m. Eastern, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre broadcast the infamous “War of the Worlds” radio drama on the CBS network, reporting that aliens had invaded Grovers Mill, New Jersey. The menace grew throughout the broadcast as live music from “Ramon Raquello and His Orchestra” was interrupted by increasingly ominous news bulletins that chronicled a frightening alien invasion that spread well beyond the community outside Princeton, a smoke-choked reporter delivering vivid dispatches of the horror until he takes his dying breath.