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The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth
45 minutes Posted Nov 19, 2020 at 2:00 am.
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On Halloween 1938 young radio star Orson Welles scared the pants off of America with a fictional news bulletin claiming Martians had landed and were destroying the country. People across the nation ran wild with panic in the streets – or did they?

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