Paul Frees credited as playing...
Second Radio Reporter • Opening Announcer
- Radio Reporter: All radio is dead, which means that these tape recordings I'm making are for the sake of future history - If any.
- Radio Reporter: The target for the A-bomb is this nest of Martian machines in the Puente Hills, where more of these meteor cylinders came down early last evening. A plane will pinpoint the target for the drop from six miles up. Now, we've been warned that this bomb is ten times more powerful than anything previously used, it's the latest thing in nuclear fission. Nothing like this has ever been exploded before, and we're going to be pretty darn close. But there are observers down in the valley in a forward bunker, and they'll be a lot nearer than us. The whole world is waiting, for this will decide the fate of civilization, all Humanity, whether we live or die, may depend on what happens here. "There must be a couple of million people back of us in the shelter of the San Gabriel Hills, waiting... waiting to find out whether they can go home again. Everywhere all around the world people have been driven from thier homes. Direct cable communication is being maintained with Washington, but there is no radio at all. Not even with the... bombing plane that's coming over. All radio is dead. Which means that these tape recordings I'm making are for the sake of future history. If any.
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- Radio Reporter: [voiceover] In the First World War, and for the first time in the history of man, nations combined to fight against nations using the crude weapons of those days. The Second World War involved every continent on the globe, and men turned to science for new devices of warfare, which reached an unparalleled peak in their capacity for destruction. And now, fought with the terrible weapons of super-science, menacing all mankind and every creature on the Earth comes the War of the Worlds.