Front page news of Orson Welles’ Columbia Broadcasting Co. Over the next hour, news bulletins from across the eastern seaboard purportedly relayed the progress of Martian invaders as they encountered successive waves of Army and Air Force resistance, and systematically obliterated all traces of human life in their path towards New York City. Listeners followed along as the National Guard deployed from Trenton and infantry investigated the spacecraft as a massive war machine emerged, elevated above three large legs, and proceeded to decimate the soldiers, resulting in waves of civilians fleeing into nearby towns and cities throughout south Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. Cover illustration to War of the Worlds by H.G. Moy, North Jersey History and Genealogy CenterĮighty-two years ago today, Morris County residents followed breaking real time coverage of an alien invasion of New Jersey, or so they thought.Ī reporter interviewing Princeton Astronomy Professor Pierson (played by Orson Welles) recounted observations of explosions on the surface of Mars, followed by sightings of a device descending upon a farm in Grover’s Mill.Īfter interviewing the farm’s owner, the reporter followed police officers’ attempts to control the growing number of spectators surrounding the otherworldly object until grey-tentacled beings emerged from the craft and began incinerating observers with a heat ray.
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