Media Psyop: The 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast

Media Psyop: The 1938 War of the Worlds Radio BroadcastIn 1938, a radio adaption of "The War of the Worlds" provoked stories of "mass panic" across the USA a claim that millions of people had mistaken the broadcast for news coverage of a Martian invasion of Earth. Into this drama, stepped a number of academics from Princeton University. With help from The Rockefeller Foundation, they studied the effect of the broadcast setting an elaborate myth of "mass panic" in stone. In this book, reseacher Carl James

In 1938, a radio adaption of "The War of the Worlds" provoked stories of "mass panic" across the USA - a claim that millions of people had mistaken the broadcast for news coverage of a Martian invasion of Earth. Into this drama, stepped a number of academics from Princeton University. With help from The Rockefeller Foundation, they studied the effect of the broadcast - setting an elaborate myth of "mass panic" in stone. In this book, reseacher Carl James delves into the broadcast to tell the true story behind the myth, examine those who helped to shape it, and uncover an elaborate web of social engineering and psychological warfare involving the media, intelligence agencies, government and moneyed elites. The evidence presented poses a disturbing question: Was the 1938 "The War of the Worlds" broadcast a media-led psychological operation?