Review of The Night That Panicked America

I caught wind of this story when I was a 8th Grade student at my middle school and in 1971 saw the 1953 Movie where it took place in Los Angeles, and in January, 1973 picked up a 2 record set that tells the Howard Koch Story. I also saw The Night America Panicked on TV in 1975 & I do have CD Copies of the radio show. My father heard it in 1938 as a 13 year old kid & he was hip about The Mercury Theatre, to him it was just another story. In 1968, Jefferson Kaye did versions of WOTW in 1968, 1971 & 1975 on The WKBW Radio show. In 1988 there was a 50th Anniversary of it & had Jason Robards playing Orson's Richard Pierson & The Roosevelt part was handed to Vice-President George E.W. Bush. Today I use the radio show to put myself to sleep. I also covered The 2005 Version and the tripods remind me of a "Christine" car shooting lasers from the parking lights & inboard lights zapping people right & left & the trumpet noise was great. also a boy similar to Bill Cosby did smear Jello on the floor and set the sofa on fire to keep The Martians from coming in the results his father got injured and broke his arm & for two years would intro his son & make his son tell about how he burned a $100.00 sofa & broke his father's arm saving the house from The Martians. Marcus Brainard