The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth
By iHeartPodcasts
Stuff You Should Know
Thursday, 19 November
On Halloween 1938 young radio star Orson Welles scared the pants off of America with a fictional news bulletin claiming Martians had landed and were destroying the country. People across the nation ran wild with panic in the streets – or did they?
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