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The War Over ‘War of the Worlds’ – Myth or Math?
Conventional wisdom holds that Orson Welles’s 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds terrorized an entire nation. Representative sample from the following day: But that’s not really what happened, as Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow chronicled in … Continue reading
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