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Did the 'War of the Worlds' Radio Broadcast Really Cause Mass Panic?
PBS has a documentary about Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast and the resulting hysteria that swept America. The only problem? Many scholars contend that the program didn’t actually cause mass panic at all.
The story is burned into our national consciousness: Airing on October 30, 1938, the War of the Worlds broadcast was brilliantly directed by the not yet world famous “boy wonder,” Orson Welles. His expertly crafted show told the story of Martians invading New Jersey, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake. We’re told millions of people took the fictional program as real, and thought that the end of the world had arrived. The program supposedly 👉caused suicides,👈 heart attacks, and any number of panicked people to get in their cars and flee for the hills.
https://gizmodo.com/did-the-war-of-the-worlds-radio-broadcast-really-cause-1453582