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What were listeners panicked about during Orson Welles’ “The War of the Worlds” radio broadcast?

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Retry Correct Incorrect On October 31, 1938 Orson Welles read an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel, The War of the Worlds, on a radio program. Listeners thought that there was a real Martian invasion because they didn’t catch the introduction where Welles explained that it was a dramatic radio show.

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What were listeners panicked about during Orson Welles’ “The War of the Worlds” radio broadcast?

• swarms of bees
• a Martian invasion
• floods
• Russian spies