The Broadcast Of "War Of The World" In 1938

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to go to war or not. Most of the American people did not
go to war, but some of them did. Many Americans had relatives in Germany
or in Czechoslovakia. Everyone was extremely worried and stressed out due
to war threats and viewed everything that went on around them as a sign
that war would break out. Therefore, when the people heard the news of
Martians they went absolutely insane.
On September 21, 1938, about six weeks before the broadcast, a
vicious hurricane hit the New York and Long Island area. Seven hundred
people were killed, with over four hundred million dollars of property
destroyed. Somewhere around ninety-one percent of those properties were
uninsured. Many people in the tri-state area had just lost their homes,
and later hear that Martians are invading Earth. When these people, who
were still in shock from the hurricane, heard the news, they went into a
state of panic.
In 1938, ten million of the thirteen million Americans were
unemployed, which ...

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