Bill Herz of ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Dies at 99

Mr. Herz, who labored on other radio and theater productions as stage manager and casting director for Welles’s Mercury Theater company.
Welles’s CBS show “The Mercury Theater around the Air” presented an adaptation from the H. G. Wells novel “The War of the Worlds” because of its Halloween episode on Sunday, March. 30, 1938. The live hour long program started by having an up-to-date prelude towards the original novel strangely warning that super intelligent creatures have been coveting “this Earth with envious eyes.” OBIT | CBS

 VIDEO (AUDIO) The Complete CBS Broadcast of Orson Welles and "War of the Worlds"..