On October 30th, 1938, a young Orson Wells and his colleagues put out a radio broadcast that caused panic across the country. A dramatization of H.G. Wells' War Of The Worlds was mistaken by many listeners for an actual, real-time news broadcast-- folks apparently thought that Martians were actually invading the Earth. :alien
If anyone is interested, here's a link to download an mp3 of the actual broadcast (right-click and save as)-
Mercury Theater War Of The Worlds mp3 (http://www.archive.org/download/mercurytheaterOTRKIBM/1938-10-30-WarOfTheWorlds.mp3)
..And a link to an archive of more of Well's Mercury Theater broadcasts-
http://www.archive.org/details/mercurytheaterOTRKIBM (http://www.archive.org/details/mercurytheaterOTRKIBM)