Listeners in 1938 thought the fictional broadcast was a real news report. The year is 1938. The cost of a gallon of gas is 10 cents. Franklin D. Roosevelt is president. The primary medium of ...
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The radio broadcast mass panic that never happened
A particularly realistic radio play adaptation of HG Wells' sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds caused mass panic when it was broadcast on October 30, 1938. Or at least, that's how the story goes. The ...
In 1938, the Great Depression ravaged America, the world was on the brink of war, and Superman debuted. And on the night before Halloween that year, another event occurred that sent America into pure ...
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