Dave Jorgensen

Anyway, rumor has it that's how people reacted to it when they first saw it in theaters.

They jumped out of the way.

Um...

Very scary.

We just weren't ready for that type of media yet.

Decades later, in 1938, there was a radio broadcast that scared a lot of Americans.

Here's a snippet of it.

Did you guys hear that's coming towards Earth?

So we all know that that didn't really happen, but people listening thought it did.

And it was an Orson Welles broadcast.

People heard this broadcast and were literally in the streets forming mobs.

There was police officers outside the CBS studios in New York, and the NECU executives were trying to shut the broadcast down.

It was a widespread issue.

The CBS affiliate in Cleveland, where the host was the Future Tonight Show host, Jack Parr, he was there trying to convince listeners that it was a fictional story, but they didn't believe him.

People were calling in and saying, no, this is an adaptation of War of the Worlds.

It's fictional.

It's not real.

And so every time there's a new form of media, we have to adapt.

You guys remember email chains?

I've dug this one up the other day.