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Audio: Mercury Theatre's War of the Worlds AudioAudio: Mercury Theatre's War of the Worlds Audio
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9th - 10th
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Audio: Mercury Theatre's War of the Worlds

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The 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds threw many people into a panic. Listen to the original radio broadcast available as an MP3 from this site. This audio-only link requires Quicktime.

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the war of the worlds

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