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What was the American reaction to the 1938 War of the Worlds radio show?

On October 30, 1938, a production of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds was broadcast in the United States on CBS radio as a parody of a report from the scene. Many listeners did not realize that they were being read a work of fiction, and they called the radio asking if there really was a Martian invasion. The next day, some newspapers wrote about mass panic on the streets of cities and crowds of refugees who left their homes. However, this was a big exaggeration - if numerous calls from individual frightened Americans took place, no mass psychosis was observed.

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