Filmed in October 2019, 81 years from the 1938 Halloween eve War of the Worlds broadcast. Author A. Brad Schwartz is at the Fitzrandolph Observatory, no longer in use at Princeton discussing the Observatory and a painting of it by Artist Robert Hummel. Built in 1934, it would have been the Observatory that the factitious character Astronomer Richard Pierson would have worked at. Pierson played by Orson Welles in the broadcast is a central part of the famous radio play. Mr. Schwartz is expert on the broadcast and Author of Broadcast Hysteria, War of the worlds and the Art of Fake News. Get your copy for the definitive book on the subject that will fascinate you from beginning to end!
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