Based on his just-released book, Dead Air: The Night Orson Welles Terrified America , William Hazelgrove uses the actual broadcast and many media stories to detail the great Halloween hoax of 1938. That’s when 23-year-old Orson Welles broadcast to the world that Martians had landed in New Jersey and were exterminating humans with heat ray guns and poisonous gas. The coast-to-coast terror takes viewers on a wild ride through America as people run for the hills, contemplate suicide, get in accidents, run out of restaurants, theatres, and churches believing the war had ended. Includes Q&A.
Cost: Free
Source: WC Public Library