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Invaders
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Panic
Filled the city. Down crowded streets between towering skyscraper
office blocks people jostled and pushed, fought desperately to flee
the terror that threatened from the unknown.
Cars and lorries hooted and honked straining under loads of hurriedly
gathered household belongings that filled every available space, and
sped for the exit roads that led to the safety of the countryside. In
barracks and billets National Guardsmen were on standby alert, weapons
ready to repel the.... |
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This
chaotic scene, repeated in many towns and hamlets along America's
east coast was a result of dramatic reports of a Martian invasion
near New York, which had been broadcast over the radio. Breathlessly
the horrifies announcer described the saucer like craft which had
landed outside the city and the terrifying machines which were battling
with deadly rays toward the city. To the petrified listeners it was
stark and real, their homes were under attack. Not until the next
morning did they angrily discover that they had been vitims of one
of the greatest hoaxes ever. |
The
announcers dramatic news reports were merely part of a radio play
of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, a fictional book telling of a martian
invasion of Earth.
This happened in America in the 1930s and was fiction...events that have
happened since make the possibility of beings from space landing on earth
an actual fact! |
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