On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles supposedly* caused a nationwide panic with a radio broadcast of his adaptation of H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, the story of a Martian invasion of earth. Wells’ story was first serialized in magazines in 1897 and then published as a hard cover in 1898.
Karsh photographed H. G. Wells at home in London, England, in 1943.