Weekend Oct 24, 2015
Perhaps the most successful prank of the 1900s was a Orson Welles broadcast of War of the Worlds.
The original ran for 58 minutes. The link here is a short version only 12 minutes long.
Radio is perhaps a much more imaginative medium than television which actually shows a picture. Instead radio is a theater of the mind in which the listener composes his or her own image of what is happening.
Read more about the broadcast here.
The broadcast reports an alleged Martian Invasion. The monsters easily dispatch army equipped with rifles, machine guns, artillery, and air power. Panic ensues and the public was not happy.
Professor Elam 
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