On October 30th 1938, Orson Welles caused a nationwide panic with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds," a realistic radio dramatisation of a Martian invasion of Earth. Orson Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theatre company decided to update H.G. Wells' 19th-century science fiction novel War of the Worlds for national … Continue reading October 30 1938 Orson Welles scares a nation