http://www.metafilter.com/tags/mercurytheatre Posts tagged with 'mercurytheatre' at MetaFilter. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:31:01 -0800 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:31:01 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/76107/Thats%2Dno%2Dmeteorite Seventy years ago today was the original broadcast of "The War of the Worlds". Listen to it, uninterrupted, <a href="http://www.radioheardhere.com/waroftheworlds/">here.</a> The program reportedly caused a mass panic across much of the Northeast. The <a href="http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/War_of_the_Worlds/">Museum of Hoaxes</a> has some good information about the extent of the actual "panic" that erupted from the broadcast. Grovers Mill - now part of Windsor Township - has a <a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2749">monument</a> at the "<a href="http://learn.southsuburbancollege.edu/theatre/groversmill/WOTWPlaque.html">crash site</a>". <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/73998/Woking-Walker">Previously</a> discussed monument at Woking, site of HG Wells' original Martian landing. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76107 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:31:01 -0800 drama hgwells mercurytheatre orsonwelles radio waroftheworlds backseatpilot