West Chicago Public Library presents the program based on the just-released book, “Dead Air: The Night Orson Welles Terrified America,”at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 8, 2026, William Hazelgrove uses the actual broadcast and many media stories to detail the great Halloween hoax of 1938; 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. https://wcpld.librarycalendar.com/events/month (photo courtesy West Chicago Public Library)
Cost: TBD
Source: MerleBurl