Brave New Jersey Page #3

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You are a wonderful Abraham Lincoln.

And you are the spitting image of Bette Davis.

Greta garbo!

This--

You'll fix it. you always do.

You'll make it better.

I don't deserve you.

You're the most beautiful girl in town.

You know that?

In all New Jersey.

The Columbia Broadcasting System

and its affiliated stations

present Orson Welles and the mercury theater

on the air, in "The War of the Worlds."

Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program

of dance music to bring you a special bulletin

from the intercontinental radio news.

It is reported that at 8:50 pm,

a huge flaming object

believed to be a meteorite, fell on a farm

in the neighborhood of Grover's Mill, New Jersey.

The government meteorological bureau

has requested a large observatory

keep a watch on any further disturbances

occurring on the planet Mars.

We'll return you, until then,

to the music of Ramon Raquello

and his orchestra.

Then you're quite convinced as a scientist

that living intelligence, as we know it,

does not exist on Mars?

How far is Mars from here?

I'd say approximately 40 million miles.

Well, that seems to take--

We take you now to Grover's Mill, New Jersey.

-Hello?

-Are you hearing this?

-The what?

-The radio's reporting something about Mars.

Something landed over at Grover's Mill.

You have to slow down.

You need to put the radio on

if you're not listening--

Okay, okay, I'll turn it on.

It landed, but they don't know what it is.

It was on the rad--

Well, I hardly know where to begin.

I guess that's it.

Yes, I guess that's the thing directly in front of me.

I can see the object itself.

Doesn't look very much like a meteor.

It looks more like a huge cylinder.

Friction with the earth's atmosphere

usually tears holes in a meteorite.

This thing is smooth,

and the metal casing is definitely extraterrestrial.

And not found on this earth.

What?

Something's happening.

Stay back, I tell you!

Good heavens.

Something wiggling

out of the shadow like a gray snake.

Eyes are black and they gleam like a serpent.

The mouth is kind of V shaped with saliva

dripping from its rimless lips.

I see the--

Will you hold on, please?

I'll be right back in a minute.

We are bringing you an eyewitness account

of what's happening on the Wwilmuth Farm,

Grover's Mill, New Jersey.

Wait a minute, something's happening.

...by the woods, the fires--

The gas tanks, tanks of the automobiles--

spreading everywhere.

Coming this way now,

about 20 yards to my right--

Ladies and gentlemen, due to circumstances

beyond our control,

we are unable to continue the broadcast

from Grover's Mill.

Oh, my god.

At least 40 people lie dead in the field

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