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Mr. Gene Barry will be sadly missed...

Born in 1919, as Eugene Klass of New York, Mr. Gene Barry spent his life in a fruitful world that most will never know. "He was attending New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn when he won a singing contest and a...

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"War of the Worlds" broadcast recreation

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War of the Worlds 70th Anniversary

Orson Wells' famous broadcast War of the Worlds (or La Guerra de los Mundos) first aired 70 years ago today, when thousands of Americans erupted into panic at the thought the world was being invaded by...

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Americans Urged to ‘Tune In’ Before Next Terror Strike

On October 30, 1938, Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast a radio drama based upon the H.G. Wells’ novel, War of the Worlds.. The fictitious program’s storyline — about an alien invasion of Earth — genuinely frightened many Americans. Among the most frightened,...