At the age of 4 years-old, Joan Geraci remembers the fear of her grandparents when their family suddenly and mysteriously abandoned the regular floors of their southern New Jersey farmhouse for an unfinished cellar constructed completely of dirt. She and her 3-year-old brother did not know that their grandparents were responding to, what was thought as, radio news reports of Martians landing in central New Jersey and attacking the local populace.

Of course, what they actually heard on the radio was the first portion of the radio drama, "The War of the Worlds" on CBS Radio's Mercury Theater on the Air, hosted by a young rising radio star named Orson Welles. This evening will mark the 76th anniversary of the historic radio broadcast, which captivated and frightened many people across the nation.

More: http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2014/10/war-of-worlds-panic-broadcast.html

2014: 75th Year of Pittsburgh's Buhl Planetarium

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Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director,

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