Panic in the Streets: The War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
The 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast by Orson Welles is widely believed to have triggered nationwide panic, but new evidence suggests the hysteria was largely invented by newspapers to discredit the rising power of radio. The real conspiracy may not have been the broadcast, but th
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