Caption: Orson Welles (1915--1985), 1937 Mar01---young Orson.
Orson Welles was, of course, a film director and yours truly remembers him as a frequent guest and guest host on The Tonight Show in the 1970s or so.
Welles' 1938 "The War of Worlds radio play" provoked a real Martian invasion scare---it was a radio play, NOT a hoax, but it was done in a you-are-there fashion---heck it was Oct30, the day before Halloween---on the other hand, Welles was a bit of wag.
Welles transferred the setting from England to Grover's Mill, New Jersey. yours truly guesses a Martian invasion of New Jersey just seemed more likely.
By the by, Welles was NO relation to the author of The War of the Worlds (1898), H. G. Wells (1866--1946), but it's plausible that their homonymous surnames suggested the "The War of Worlds radio play" to Welles.
See Orson Welles videos below:
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