Wish We Hadn't Done That Day

This holiday (today) commemorates the broadcast of the radio program "War Of The Worlds", based on a book written by H.G. Wells and "reported" on live radio by Orson Welles back in 1938.

This broadcast, a stunt now very illegal I'm sure, made millions of people think they had been invaded by hostile aliens. Ooops...

In retrospect, however, I wonder if Mr. Welles wished he hadn't done that after all the dust settled. In a way, he shouted "fire" in the largest theater imaginable (the whole country) and got away with it...

For a downloadable version of the broadcast, visit http://www.mercurytheatre.info/. It takes a while but is pretty fun to listen to.