Dead Air: The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America

by William Elliott Hazelgrove

An in-depth look at the greatest hoax in radio history and the panic that followed.

On a warm Halloween Eve, October 30, 1938, during a broadcast of H G. Wells' War of the Worlds, a twenty-three-year-old Orson Welles held his hands up for radio silence in the CBS studio in New York City while millions of people ran out into the night screaming, grabbed shotguns, drove off in cars, and hid in basements, attics, or anywhere they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538187167
• ISBN13: 9781538187166
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages