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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the night before Halloween in 1938 when a dramatic presentation of a fake news broadcast about invading Martians sent radio listeners around the country into a panic, and examines why so many people confused entertainment with reality.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Describes the panic induced when listeners believed Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" to be news of an alien invasion, discussing the context in which the broadcast was aired and why it was so convincing.
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