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On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call the police. Some even fled their homes. But the hair-raising broadcast was not a real news bulletin-it was Orson Welles's adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic __The War of the Worlds__. In __Broadcast Hysteria__, A. Brad Schwartz boldly retells the story of Welles's famed radio play and its impact. Did it really spawn a "wave of mass hysteria," as __The New York Times__ reported? Schwartz is the first to examine the hundreds of letters sent to Orson Welles himself in the days after the broadcast, and his findings challenge the conventional wisdom. Few listeners believed an actual attack was under way. But even so, Schwartz shows that Welles's broadcast became a major scandal, prompting a different kind of mass panic as Americans debate

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Author

Schwartz, A. Brad; Welles, Orson

Publisher

Macmillan;Hill and Wang

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809031641

Category

history

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Engineering

Rating

3.68 / 5 (145 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14