Remembering the War Of The Worlds
Posted November 19th, 2011 by Murray By Moonlight
Filed under: That Pop Cult Thing, The Truth Is Less Strange Than Fiction
Tags: entertainment, mass hysteria, not of this world, radio
There’s an interesting article on the BBC News site that discusses the hysteria that is often claimed to have swept across America in 1938, during the live radio broadcast of HG Wells’s War Of The Worlds.
According to the article, some people did react to the broadcast with fear, however time has inflated these numbers to nothing less than mythic proportions.
