Posted on 03/18/2020 6:03:22 PM PDT by knarf
PLEASE allow this thread to remain.
I think the historical value is timely and apropos.
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The Original Broadcast (remastered
In 1938, radio was all that was left after the Nazis shut down television and the internet.
I think the martians did land here in N.J. How else can you explain what we have become.
Joe Biden, is that you?
No, this is 2020. We are much more advanced and would never fall for that today. Now it’s Tic-Tac UFOs dogfighting with US Navy F-18 fighters.
Had they done some channel surfing and turned the dial to hear what other stations were saying, they would have heard Tutti Frutti, Flat Foot Floogie, A-Tisket A-Tasket, or Kangaroo Blues and realized that everything was normal.
Without going to the link I will assume the original War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, Orson Wells’ broadcast.
An earlier panic was 1910, when Haley’s Comet was supposed to wipe out all life on Earth. Some people actually committed suicide rather than be gassed.
Nothing happened.
VERY few people fell for it. Only those who tuned it late or otherwise missed the disclaimers. Almost no one out west. My parents lived through it and remembered it very well.
This was 1938 radio .... the 4g high speed internet of the time.
THIS explains it
here's the untold story behind how it happened .... a lot like today
My father told me last year that he, his parents and brother were listening to the broadcast on the radio and freaked out.
Granddad told them all, “get your coats we’re going to church!”
I had that on cassette in the ‘80s.
I have it in iTunes audiobook format today.
It never gets old.
Spot on. I am ashamed of humanity and America as a whole. I never understood the pessimism of even the Founders when they made America. I do know now.
B4L8r
One shouldn’t miss Welles apology press conference afterwards in which he cannot suppress a smirk at the stupidity of people who bought into a radio show about martians. Hilarious.
Welles was a master of the lurking smirk. He had it working right up to the end.
Here's hoping he can survive the pandemic.
He wasn't in War of the Worlds, but Kenny "Foghorn Leghorn" was.
I googled "Last Surviving Mercury Player," because I couldn't remember Norman Lloyd's name and whether he was still alive, and got "Upon his death in December 2016, John Glenn was the last surviving Mercury Seven astronaut."
Time is really catching up.
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