The Pittsburgh Press (November 2, 1944)
Orson is braced for GOP ‘hoax’
New York (UP) –
Orson Welles, speaking at an extemporaneous radio forum sponsored by the Democratic National Committee, said last night he expected “one more act of desperation – a big hoax, an outrageous one” from the “Deweyites,” before Nov. 7.
He said:
I don’t know whether it’s too much to wonder if the Deweyites might not even attempt their own equivalent of the Reichstag fire.
Others on the NBC forum were authors John Gunther and Quentin Reynolds.