Days That Shook the World

Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds/Hitler Diaries (3x3)

Air date: Nov 03, 2005

30 October 1938 and 24 April 1983 Over a million radio listeners panic thinking the nation was being attacked by Martians in Orsen Welles 'War of the Worlds' and one of the world's most venerable newspapers falls for fake diaries of Adolf Hitler. Clever fakers or just a gullible public?