Rabu, 10 Mei 2017

American History Review: War of the Worlds-American Experience

War of the Worlds  American Experience, PBS, 60 minutes, airs in October (2013) On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and his heralded Mercury Theater unwittingly unloosed one of the best-known Halloween tricks of all time. Millions of Americans tuned into the Theater’s radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ famed science-fiction novel—after the initial announcement explaining it …

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