[vladimir998]

Were they that gullible?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/the-war-of-the-worlds-panic-was-a-myth/#:~:text=The%20story%20that%20mass,unchallenged%20for%20nearly%20eight%20decades.

If it is a myth that people panicked, then aren’t we the gullible ones for believing the myth?

[Fester Chugabrew]

Good point. Good article. From the same:

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AND IT’S NOT A GOOD IDEA TO COPY ORSON WELLES . . .

In February 1949, Leonardo Paez and Eduardo Alcaraz produced a Spanish-language version of Welles’s 1938 script for Radio Quito in Ecuador. The broadcast set off panic. Quito police and fire brigades rushed out of town to fight the supposed alien invasion force. After it was revealed that the broadcast was fiction, the panic transformed into a riot. The riot resulted in at least seven deaths, including those of Paez’s girlfriend and nephew. The offices Radio Quito, and El Comercio, a local newspaper that had participated in the hoax by publishing false reports of unidentified flying objects in the days preceding the broadcast, were both burned to the ground.