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== Dead Air ==
=== The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America ===
==== William Elliot Hazelgrove 2024 / Beaverton Lib. 791.4472 ====
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 . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles | Orson Welles Wikipedia / 1915 May Kenosha / 1985 October Los Angeles ]]
 .p022 1926 Sep [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Seminary_for_Boys | Todd Seminary for Boys ]]
 .p023 Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale IQ 185 (sic - that is more than 6 standard deviations, 2 in a billion, unlikely)
  .Quoted from [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/844727517 | Orson Welles and Roger Hill ]] by Todd Tarbox, 2013.
 .p043 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_March_of_Time_(radio_program) | March of Time ]] radio program 1931 to 1945
 .p060 1938 March 27 daughter [[ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919914/ | Christopher(!) Welles (Feder) ]] born [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeRXOQ-Fp6w | Youtube ]]
 .p061 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisades,_New_York | Snedens Landing ]] 20 miles north of New York, west side of Hudson
 .p063 script hashed out over night over hash in Perkin's Restaurant
 .p065 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bergen | Edgar Bergen ]] ventriloquist for Charlie !McCarthy puppet, most of 32M audience, 
 .p065 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mercury_Theatre_on_the_Air | Mercury Theatre on the Air ]] 3.6%, about 1.2M
 .p065 [ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Theatre | Mercury Theatre ]] 1937 to 1948 on stage
 .p066 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._E._Hooper | Hooper Rating ]]
 .p066 asthmatic Wells moves to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Regis_New_York | St. Regis Hotel ]] to avoid pollen
 .p198 "America was never bombed on its mainland during World War II" 
  .not quite true, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb | 9300 incendiary balloon bombs launched from Japan ]], 300 found, 6 people killed near [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bly,_Oregon | Bly, Oregon ]]