Orson Welles, Directing the radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds.”

CBS studios, November 1938; Bernard Herrmann conducting the CBS Orchestra.

“… So realistic was the Welles production of the utterly imaginative tale of a descent upon earth of monstrous people from Mars, that radio listeners from New York to San Francisco and Canada to the Gulf of Mexico believed the catastrophe was really happening. Many were injured in the widespread panic that ensued..