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It might not have been April Fools’ Day, and it might not have started as a prank, yet a radio broadcast made thousands of people believe that Earth was under alien attack!
The very next morning, The New York Times reported: “A wave of mass hysteria seized thousands of radio listeners, leading them to believe that an interplanetary conflict had started with a Martian invasion spreading death and destruction in New Jersey and New York.”
It was October 30, 1938, when a young, aspiring actor named Orson Welles—later the director of “Citizen Kane,” widely considered the greatest film of all time…
Read on to find out what actually happened that night to completely bypass the critical thinking of millions. The brilliant deception, the unscripted chaos, and the birth of modern media manipulation, explained.
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