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Category: The Deep South

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, as well as northern Florida, eastern Tennessee, and parts of Arkansas

“War of the Worlds,” revisited

According to this news report on CNET.com, some people in Tuscumbia, Alabama were actually frightened by a local radio stations semi-humorous ad campaign for a format change, which included images of aliens— the green kind from outer space. Didn’t this happen half-a-century ago when Orson Welles read War of the Worlds on the radio . . . ?