H.G. Welles, the Englishman who wrote “War of the Worlds,” and Orson Welles, the American who scared the dickens out of listeners with his radio adaptation of the sci-fi classic, met at a San Antonio radio station on October 29, 1940.

The encounter was strictly a coincidence.  Both men were passing through the Alamo City on lecture tours, and neither knew the other had been booked for an on-air interview at the same time.