MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, Oct. 30, 1938, “The War of the Worlds” was broadcast on national radio. The voice of that ...

It was the night before Halloween, October 30, 1938. Radios glowed in living rooms across America as families settled in for ...

Explore October 30 history including Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast, Tsar Bomba test, Mussolini's rise, and the first canned ...

Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' broadcast, a realistic radio dramatization of Martians invading Earth, scared Americans and sparked a nationwide panic on Oct. 30, 1938. Orson Welles’ ‘War of the ...

Listeners in 1938 thought the fictional broadcast was a real news report. The year is 1938. The cost of a gallon of gas is 10 cents. Franklin D. Roosevelt is president. The primary medium of ...

Seventy-five years ago, Orson Welles terrorized Americans coast to coast with his now infamous radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s science-fiction classic, The War of the Worlds. The Halloween broadcast ...

Oct. 30, 1938, was a cool autumn Sunday evening. Baltimoreans were still celebrating Johns Hopkins’ win over Haverford College, 7-6, after Charlie Rudo made a stunning 80-yard touchdown run in the ...

Before Orson Welles, who died in October 1985, directed his masterpiece, "Citizen Kane," he became famous for his radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds." It was a radio broadcast that marked ...

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Ladies and gentlemen, the director of the Mercury Theatre and star of these broadcasts, Orson Welles. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: If he was alive today, the great Orson Welles would have ...