[meteorite-list] The Meteorite that panicked a Nation

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:27:43 2004
Message-ID: <001b01c3a01e$35c26060$8fc89f44_at_wbranch>

Hi Ken,

Thanks very much. I am a big WOTW fan!

-Walter
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Walter Branch, Ph.D.
Branch Meteorites
PO Box 60492
Savannah, GA 31420



----- Original Message -----
From: "magellon" <magellon_at_earthlink.net>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 3:57 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] The Meteorite that panicked a Nation


> All,
> Last evening marked the passing of an event that occurred
> Sixty-five years ago. Even though many of us were not yet born,
> we have all heard of about the panic associated with this event.
>
> If you had turned your radio on just after 8' o'clock to your favorite
> CBS station you would be entertained by Ramon Raquello and
> his orchestra when the show was interrupted by a special report
> from Intercontinental Radio News. The bulletin was to let people
> know that scientists had noticed explosions on the surface
> of Mars, and that something was flying towards the
> earth at an incredible speed. After the announcement the music
> began again. Then another news report came on. This time to
> inform the audience that a huge, flaming object, believed to
> be a meteorite had fallen to earth at Grovers Mill, New Jersey.
> At Grovers Mill it was realized that the object was not a meteorite.
> Eventually, a huge creature with a drooling V-shaped mouth
> emerged from the object, zapped the people dead, and torched
> the field with its heat-ray. And the horror continued....
> Listeners thought they were tuning in live reports from the scene
> but were actually hearing Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater
> on the Air with their updated version of H.G. Wells' sci-fi novel
> The War of the Worlds.
>
> The War of the Worlds broadcast terrified people from
> coast to coast. Families fled their homes, covering their mouths
> with handkerchiefs trying not to breathe the harmful black gas.
> People packed into churches. Roads leading out of cities were
> jammed with cars. People across the nation thought they were
> going to die. It is estimated that over six million people listened
> to that broadcast, and close to two million thought it was a
> news bulletin.
>
>
> For more info see:
> movie "The Night that panicked America"
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html
> http://www.waroftheworlds.org/the_broadcast.htm
>
>
>
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Received on Fri 31 Oct 2003 09:16:50 PM PST