At 8PM Eastern Standard Time on Oct. 30, 1938, six million Americans listened to this now famous broadcast which described an extraterrestrial invasion from Mars. An estimated one million listeners responded with sustained credulity and fear; thous…
At 8PM Eastern Standard Time on Oct. 30, 1938, six million Americans listened to this now famous broadcast which described an extraterrestrial invasion from Mars. An estimated one million listeners responded with sustained credulity and fear; thousands responded with sheer panic. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel, 'The War of the Worlds'.
Read more about this CFR psychological operation from a text by William Cooper found on the Wayback machine.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010620092319/http://williamcooper.com/warofthe.htm
'Council on Foreign Relations Experiments in Fear'
http://web.archive.org/web/20010603214349/http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/2x2l.html
In the days following this broadcast, there was widespread outrage from the public. The program's news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast; this episode however, secured Orson Welles' fame.
Book - 'The War Of The Worlds' by H.G. Wells (1898)
http://web.archive.org/web/20010701092806/http://www.literature.org/authors/wells-herbert-george/the-war-of-the-worlds/
Project Gutenberg - Free eBook for download
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36
Audio (The Mercury Theater on the Air)
https://archive.org/details/TheWarOfTheWorldsHGWells
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