Today I Found Out

The War of the Worlds Mass Panic (That Never Happened) (2016x212)

Air date: Oct 14, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.yout→“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. Littered with realistic simulated news reports and “eyewitness accounts,” the hour long broadcast was innovative and an extremely entertaining way to present the story. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/04/war-worlds-panic-never-really-happened/ 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