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The Annotated Guide
On Halloween Night, 1938, 12 million Americans sitting around "the wireless"
froze. The regular Sunday night music programming had been interrupted by a
news bulletin: strange alien spacecrafts had landed in Grover's Mill, New Jersey.
A trip back in time to 1938, into the ears and mind of a frightened radio audience...
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