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The 1938 “War of the Worlds”
Culture, media & expressions
Radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’s novel by Orson Welles, broadcast on CBS on 30 October 1938. Part of the audience reportedly believed in a real Martian invasion; the scale of the panic was exaggerated by the press of the day. It remains the symbol of the media’s influence on collective fears.