{"id":85153,"date":"2025-10-30T02:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=85153"},"modified":"2025-10-30T02:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:57:45","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-1938-orson-welles-reads-war-of-the-worlds-over-radio-causing-mass-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/on-this-day-in-history-1938-orson-welles-reads-war-of-the-worlds-over-radio-causing-mass-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in History 1938: Orson Welles Reads ‘War of the Worlds’ over Radio causing Mass Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Orson<\/p>\n

Panic Over War of the Worlds<\/a><\/h1>\n

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The\u00a0War of the Worlds<\/a>, the science fiction novel by English author H.G. Wells<\/a> telling of a space ship from Mars landing on Earth and causing panic, death and destruction, was published in 1897. On this day in 1938 actor Orson Welles<\/a>\u00a0allegedly caused real-life panic across America when he presented the story in an all-too-realistic radio broadcast.<\/h2>\n

RTWT @ On This Day<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"War<\/p>\n

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Panic Over War of the Worlds The\u00a0War of the Worlds, the science fiction novel by English author H.G. Wells telling of a space ship from Mars landing on Earth and causing panic, death and destruction, was published in 1897. On this day in 1938 actor Orson Welles\u00a0allegedly caused real-life panic across America when he presented…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,478,479,4634,9995],"tags":[8798,9606,19037,19039,19038],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85154,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85153\/revisions\/85154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}