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What were listeners panicked about during Orson Welles’ “The War of the Worlds” radio broadcast?
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On October 31, 1938 Orson Welles read an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel, The War of the Worlds, on a radio program. Listeners thought that there was a real Martian invasion because they didn’t catch the introduction where Welles explained that it was a dramatic radio show.
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What were listeners panicked about during Orson Welles’ “The War of the Worlds” radio broadcast?
- swarms of bees
- Russian spies
- floods
- a Martian invasion
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