File:Welles-Radio-Scare-1938.jpg

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English: Photograph of Orson Welles, published following the radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" on The Mercury Theatre on the Air
  • Caption reads as follows:
    In Radio Scare
    Here is Orson Welles, leader of the Mercury theater group which presented that too realistic nation-wide broadcast describing an imaginary invasion of the U.S. by an army from the planet Mars that frightened thousands of listeners all over the U.S.
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publication — photo dates to 1937

  • Photograph was published in newspapers in November 1937 in connection with the Mercury Theatre production of Caesar
Source The Evening Journal, Washington, Iowa; Volume 45, Number 223, page 1
Author The Evening Journal, Washington, Iowa (no photo credit given)
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  • As seen in the initial upload, the image was published in The Evening Journal (November 2, 1938) with no copyright notice. Backstamp of an original print reads "Kindly credit Crown Foto Features."

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