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Event Series:
Sundays at the Center
October 15, 2023 at 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
FreeFor the Halloween season, historian and radio theater performer Ralph Swain will conduct a multimedia presentation on a 1938 fictional radio broadcast of a Martian invasion of the U.S. that thousands of listeners across the country believed was actually occurring. The ensuing panic was a foreshadowing of the impact of the new medium of radio, strange happenings occurring here and abroad, and the ominous signs of global warfare. Pundits continue to this day to dissect and analyze the causes of mass hysteria, misinformation, and disinformation.