Vor 80 Jahren, am 30. Oktober:
„Ladies and gentlemen, this is Carl Phillips again, at the Wilmuth farm, Grovers Mill, New Jersey. Professor Pierson and myself made the eleven miles from Princeton in ten minutes. Well, I . . . just got here. I haven't had a chance to look around yet. I guess that's it. Yes, I guess that's the . . . thing, directly in front of me, half buried in a vast pit. Must have struck with terrific force. The ground is covered with splinters of a tree it must have struck on its way down. What I can see of the . . . object itself doesn't look very much like a meteor, at least not the meteors I've seen. It looks more like a huge cylinder."
Heute stehe ich mit A. Brad Schwartz am Denkmal der „Martian Landing Site". Es geht um den „Krieg der Welten", das Hörspiel mit Orson Welles. Schwartz hat Jahrzehnte später alle Briefe, die Hörer nach der Ausstrahlung geschrieben hatten, durchforstet und ein Buch dazu geschrieben: „Broadcast hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the art of fake news".
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