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0:54we cannot mistreat got maps Q less
0:57large population the moment of my my money on your own room
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1:10go
1:12the ok
1:22well comics thank you comic
1:25comic cock and it would only act fuck
1:35this is a result ok apply and on the reasoning
1:39paramount rock and do not calling all
1:42what they are be ok and this is the factual story of such a panic
1:47themes
1:51on
1:55you
1:56you you
2:00you
2:02you good evening
2:06I'm at morrow and this is the story of the like
2:10America crumbled it was october thirtieth 1938
2:13a night weather like other October nights and other years except for
2:18perhaps two factors first it was a year in which the nations of the world
2:23these for almost 20 years at recently seen factor they're comfortable delusion
2:28months ago 2000 miles away
2:31across an ocean now realize to be no longer a safeguard against invasion
2:35the arrogant demands of a power-hungry dictator
2:38but short weeks before for of equipment problem prime
2:43agreed to the humiliation pic bus
2:47point 1 but world events but left man
2:50taken on floor and open to emotional attack against the reason
2:55against their intelligence and a lot point to
3:00is somewhat harder to accept but it's equally valid
3:03it can be traced back countless century the arm civilized man finds a reason to
3:09fear a war
3:10to primitive man's instinctive terror up the great
3:13on all for October 30th was that mysterious might
3:18one dark tradition tells us themes and demon
3:21walked the whims of the world the 1i to be here
3:24on even sensible man believe that almost anything can happen
3:29the eve of Halloween 1938 and in a radio studio the columbia broadcasting system
3:35in New York City
3:36the actors on staff at the Mercury Theatre on the air
3:40we're putting the final touches to what was frankly a
3:43terror tale which was to go on the air within a few short minutes
3:47we see them now in the final moments of rehearsal with their director
3:54for
4:00the
4:05the way
4:12the
4:18the
4:19there
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4:25done it's nineteen that his incoming sound like to mix in the home a little
4:30bit faster and bill that
4:32wanted to do it okok 19
4:36yeah I gotta about you the
4:40the captain and two policemen advance with something in their hands
4:45as I can see it now it's ok white handkerchief tied to a pole a flag
4:49approves
4:49if those creatures know what that means
4:53what anything means wat
4:56week something's happening home
4:59faces rising out of the fifth I can make a small be applied against the mirror
5:03perfect doesn't get the flames springing from Matt Mira and at least
5:08right at the advancing man 6 strike from head-on
5:11provoke returning to flirt home
5:16scare the daylights outta that may have been rehearsing for hours ever have
5:20dealt with him it was a pretty blase
5:22no
5:26yes the sequence where you calling all stations CQ
5:29cool page 28 yeah of bilbao to save more you think you're the last
5:33man alive on earth let's have a little more desperation gonna hang it up was
5:37repetitively most opt out day okay that they meant
5:4150 minutes right
5:45government because
5:48in October 1938
5:53the columbia broadcasting system radio network consisted of a hundred and
5:5710 affiliated stations and 44 spec there was practically no sizable community in
6:03america
6:04which could not be reached by CBS broadcast us
6:07from Maine to California from Canada to the Gulf
6:10listeners were tuned to the Mercury Theatre on that fateful night
6:14in the eastern United States the area closest to the scene of the dishes pro
6:20reaction was most ever a pilot however
6:24it should be remembered that in their behavior these easterners were not
6:28unique everywhere emotions and reactions with the same
6:32panic struck universally out of the dark but peaceful sky
6:37on tonight but the gap quietly
6:44for mom
6:56well bob good evening with more come on and I'll be down in a minute
6:59thank you both water obon
7:02I go out yes good well
7:06getting chilly know it just right perfect for fall
7:09you see the game after the you that I did poor thing that nothing
7:13pretty good dream this year 7 the National Writing
7:17we ought to be first to we have been scored on yet those
7:207-iron you big ol Mike the Rose Bowl okay I think if we can get by Syracuse
7:26and Pitt we got a good director
7:27have grant hard to keep you waiting
7:31that's okay we are particularly