National Bestselling Author of over Twenty Books...CAPONES VAULT RELEASE APRIL 16 THE VAULT OPENED ON LOCATION APRIL 21...WHAT WAS REALLY IN THE VAULT?
The inspiring story of a little-known hero's pivotal role in the American Revolutionary WarDuring the brutal winter of 1775-1776, an untested Boston bookseller named Henry Knox commandeered an oxen...
A new book takes us behind the scenes of Welles’ 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ ‘The War of the Worlds.’
When the Mercury Theater broadcast an adaptation of “The War of the Worlds,” its devotion to realism blurred the boundary between fiction and hoax.
“Dead Air: The Night that Orson Welles Terrified America” by William Elliott Hazelgrove is a history of the 1938 radio adaptation of “War of the Worlds.”
John Landecker is joined by William Hazelgrove, author of the new book “Dead Air: The Night Orson Welles Terrified America,” about the 1938 radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds.&…
A new book revisits Welles’s 1938 “The War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, which six million Americans tuned in for—and nearly a third of them fell for.
The lesson was that people did not care that there was nothing in the vault. They were just there for the ride. Reality TV had arrived.
On the 40th Anniversary of the Geraldo Rivera broadcast William Elliott Hazelgrove opens Capones Vault Live in Chicago outside the site of the Lexington Hotel where the original broadcast took place.
Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the broadcast, an inside look at the historic televised reveal of Al Capone’s vaults that would define Geraldo Rivera’s career and change televis…
Dead Air: The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America
One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest ship in the world slipped beneath the icy Atlantic. There was amazing heroism and astounding incompetence...