War of the Worlds

We talked in detail in class about The War of the Worlds radio broadcast. I wanted you to see these front page stories from the New York Times and the New York Daily News. As you can see this was all very real.

If you want to consider the whole event, then you might want to listen to the whole broadcast. It's about one hour long, but you can focus on the highlights that I concentrated on in class lecture.

We also talked about Edgar Bergen and his puppet, Charlie McCarthy. Maybe he really was the Jeff Dunham of that era.