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Mars Attacked, 65 Years Ago Today

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday October 30, 2003 @10:38AM from the american-classic dept.

Jodrell writes "Forget solar flares, and the upcoming Halloween festivities - tonight marks the 65th anniversary of the broadcast of Orson Welles' radioplay version on The War Of The Worlds."

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Listen to it here by sdmartin101 · 2003-10-30 10:46 · Score: 5, Interesting

You can find an MP3 version of the original broadcast at http://www.unknown.nu/mercury/. (Be nice -- the server is slow even when not being slashdotted.)
An interesting antecdote by badboy_tw2002 · 2003-10-30 10:51 · Score: 5, Interesting

From my grandfather, who worked at a gas station about 20 miles from the "landing site" He said of all the people that stopped at the station that night, half were leaving to get away from the aliens, and the other half were driving towards it!