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An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic. | dG1fSG9BZl9iY0xIdVE
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00:00You
00:16Whenever someone asks me if I believe in heaven and hell I
00:20Tell them I don't know about heaven
00:23But on hell
00:25I'm an expert
00:27Today at 11 a.m. in Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated
00:36The Balkans are about to go to hell
00:38Countries mobilizing against each other
00:41Unless we are united, mankind is done for
00:44Martians
00:45It's been 15 years since the first invasion
00:48Are we ready, sir?
00:50I won't allow myself to believe anything else
00:53Europe's about to explode and take England with it
00:56We either make our move when it does
00:58Or we'll never be free
01:00Those fools in Europe would rather be there to fight each other than the Martians
01:08No!
01:10We must remain together
01:19Who will fight with me?
01:20Who will fight with me?
01:21Can't you guys cheer to the la guard?
01:23Putting the la님� Charms
01:24hold us
01:28around A giant
01:28must be
01:29I just fled
01:30playing
01:30mainly
01:31gonna sing
01:32Excuse me
01:33the
01:33me
01:34I just
01:35you
01:36rates
01:36Tell me
01:37near
01:38how
01:39out
01:40I got
01:40enough
01:41Let
01:42me
01:42It's
01:43room
01:44You
01:44out
01:44of
01:45beginning
01:45But
01:46I got
01:47me
01:48Come and get it!
01:53We must fight as one!
02:04No! Do not let go!
02:10Nothing can prepare you for war itself.
02:17All you can do is make sure it is your enemy that dies.
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