Subj : Today in History - 1938
To   : All
From : Dave Drum
Date : Mon Oct 30 2023 04:00:45

30 October 1938 - MARTIAN SPACESHIPS LAND IN GROVER'S MILL, NEW JERSEY:
An Intercontinental Radio News bulletin interrupts regularly scheduled
music programming, alerting listeners to a meteor strike in rural New
Jersey. What follows is nothing less than a Martian invasion cooked up
by the fiendishly clever Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre players.

The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of
the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though
the scale of panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few
listeners.

The episode begins with an introductory monologue based closely on the
opening of the original novel, after which the program takes on the
format of an evening of typical radio programming being periodically
interrupted by news bulletins. The first few bulletins interrupt a
program of live music and are relatively calm reports of unusual
explosions on Mars followed by a seemingly unrelated report of an
unknown object falling on a farm in Grovers Mill, New Jersey. The crisis
escalates dramatically when a correspondent reporting live from Grovers
Mill describes creatures emerging from what is evidently an alien
spacecraft. When local officials approach the aliens waving a flag of
truce, the "monsters" respond by incinerating them and others nearby
with a heat ray which the on-scene reporter describes in a panic until
the audio feed abruptly goes dead. This is followed by a rapid series of
news updates detailing the beginning of a devastating alien invasion and
the military's futile efforts to stop it. The first portion of the
episode climaxes with a live report from a rooftop in Manhattan, from
where a correspondent describes citizens fleeing in panic from giant
Martian "war machines" releasing clouds of poison smoke until he coughs
and falls silent. Only then does the program take its first break, about
thirty minutes after Welles's introduction.

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      Title: Green Martian Brain Boost
 Categories: Five, Beverages, Fruits, Citrus, Dairy
      Yield: 1 serving

    1/2    Pear
    1/2    Orange
      1    Kiwi fruit; peeled
    1/2 c  Dinosaur kale
    1/2 c  Chocolate almond milk
           Ice

  Place all items in vita-mix and blend until smooth

  Number of Servings: 1

  RECIPE FROM: https://recipes.sparkpeople.com

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