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On October 30, 1938, from the Mercury Theater in New York City, Orson Welles broadcasted a “modernized” radio play of H.G. Wells’ (no relation) 1898 novel “War of the Worlds.” For the last three quarters of the century, we’ve been told that this fictionalized CBS broadcast sent Americans into a panic; that citizens across the country did not realize that this was science-fiction (despite the fact that it was explicitly stated at the beginning and twice during the broadcast) and thought the USA was under attack from an invading Martian army.
Horatio
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Sources:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/history/2013/10/orson_welles_war_of_the_worlds_panic_myth_the_infamous_radio_broadcast_did.html
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/did-the-war-of-the-worlds-radio-broadcast-really-cause-1453582944
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_martian_panic_sixty_years_later_what_have_we_learned
http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/nether_fictoid7.htm
http://nc.as.ua.edu/radio_lab/transcripts/pdf/otr/waroftheworlds.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15470903
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama)#Public_reaction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells
http://www.openculture.com/2013/02/orson_welles_meets_hg_wells_in_1940_the_legends_discuss_iwar_of_the_worldsi_icitizen_kanei_and_wwii.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=0CBHAAAAMAAJ&q=Introduction+to+Collective+Behavior.+Belmont,+California:+Wadsworth.&dq=Introduction+to+Collective+Behavior.+Belmont,+California:+Wadsworth.&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zmFPU5-2KcTj2wXx_4GgCw&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA