Welles Meets Wells At Texas Radio Station

The English author of “The War of the Worlds” and the brash “boy wonder,” whose broadcast version of the book scared Americans out of their wits, met for the first and last time in San Antonio on Oct. 28, 1940.

Lecture tours brought Orson Welles and H.G. Wells to the Alamo City on the very same day, an incredible coincidence that presented a local radio station with an historic opportunity. To the station manager