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- 1926-1992 Jul 2026 The Panic Broadcast: Who Really Panicked in 1938 Everyone knows Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast sent America running into the streets. Almost none of it happened that way. The real hoax wasn't the Martians — it was the newspapers, who had a motive to make radio look dangerous, inventing a panic that mostly wasn't there.
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