<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/69642143-8fcf-4741-a4e2-15105f107b77/1AB4880D-29D1-40B7-8816-35CDF4E284D5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1030" href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1030" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1030"><H1 id="articlehed">Oct. 30, 1938: The Martians Have Landed in New Jersey!</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1030"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/F1437B0C-3CE4-4D00-AEBF-EE77EE05315E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1030"><P><STRONG>1938:</STRONG> Orson Welles dramatizes the Martian invasion of Earth during an episode of his popular radio show. Many listeners believe the invasion is real, triggering a mass panic.</p> <P>Adapting freely from H.G. Wells' science fiction novel <CITE>War of the Worlds</CITE>, Welles and his Mercury Theatre On the Air actors recast <A href="http://www.transparencynow.com/welles.htm" linkindex="40" set="yes">the story</A> as a realistic sounding news broadcast.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1030">It began with a fake bulletin that interrupted some dance music, announcing that "incandescent gas" explosions had been observed on Mars. Another bulletin followed shortly, reporting that a "huge, flaming object" had just crashed on a farm outside Grovers Mill, New Jersey.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1030"><P>It was never Welles' intention to throw a genuine scare into anyone. A disclaimer at the top of the show explained that <A href="http://members.aol.com/jeff1070/script.html" linkindex="42">what followed</A> was a dramatization, but if the listener missed the announcement it would be another 40 minutes before another one was issued. By then a lot of people had been taken in.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1AB4880D-29D1-40B7-8816-35CDF4E284D5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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