Re: [IRCA] AM740, CHWO

["Joe Miller, KJ8O" <ab8yp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thx Willis,

I heard from my friend in Chatham Ontario that CFCO
630 also played this rebroadcast last night. I'm sorry
that I missed this replay of great piece of radio
history, but I think I have it on CD.

LXXIII de Joe



--- k4ape <k4ape@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is a little late, BUT AM740, CHWO in Toronto
> has been playing the 
> original radio show "War of the Worlds" from 1937,
> with Orson Wells as the 
> star. Very interesting. I know that it scared a lot
> of people in 1937. With 
> all the things going on at that time, with the great
> possibility of war with 
> Japan and the rhetoric that Roosevelt was doing in
> egging Japan into war, it 
> was a scary time. A copy of that time will be found
> in the news items of 
> today, with Bush and Iran.
> 
> BTW, in the radio show, it was said that large
> explosions had been seen on 
> Mars by American and Canadian astronomers. If you
> check back in history, to 
> the 30's, there were reported seen explosions of
> some type on Mars.
> 
> I wonder what would happen if the media presented
> the type of show, as fact, 
> today?
> 
> Thanks to CHWO, for their excellent programming
> choices.
> 
> Willis
> Old Fort, TN 
> 
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