On WestSouthwest, Congressman Fred Upton seeks another two year term in the U.S. House. And author and historian A. Brad Schwartz discusses fallout from The War of the Worlds in South Haven.
Republican Congressman Fred Upton has represented Southwest Michigan for 30 years. He tells WMUK's Gordon Evans what he hopes to do if voters elect him for another two year term.
When Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater put of a radio dramatization of H.G. Wells' novel War of the Worlds, some listeners believed it was a real news broadcast about a Martian invasion. But author and historian A. Brad Schwartz says a myth has grown over the year about the scale of that panic. Schwatz will discuss his book Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News Thursday night in South Haven.
