[78-L] War of the Worlds broadcast [was Here's another even more oddball 78 album]

[David Breneman]

  From: David Weiner <djwein at earthlink.net>


> PBS Is showing a new documentary on Welles' WAR OF THE WORLDS this week on
> the 75th anniversary of the original broadcast.

I looked this up on the web site of my local PBS station because
this is the first I'd heard of it.  Apparently they are going to
play pieces of the original broadcast in real time (the time it
it would have aired originally) then comment on what was going on
during the broadcast.  One scary thing popped out at me in the
synopsis:

> ...the film examines the elements that together created
> one of the biggest 
mass hysteria events in U.S. history,
> including our longtime fascination
 with life on Mars;
> the emergence of radio as a powerful new medium; the
> shocking Hindenburg explosion of 1937, the first disaster
> to broadcast 
live;...

Are they really going to repeat that Hindenburg misconception as
fact?