“From the moment it hit the airwaves, the War of the Worlds radio broadcast had a profound effect on the American military. The following month, a handful of ‘military listeners’ relayed their sanitized thoughts on the subject to reporters with the Associated Press. ‘What struck the military listeners most about the radio play was its immediate emotional effect,’ the officials told the AP. ‘Thousands of persons believed a real invasion had been unleashed. They exhibited all the symptoms of fear, panic, determination to resist, desperation, bravery, excitement or fatalism that real war would have produced,’ which in turn ‘shows the government will have to insist on the close co-operation of radio in any future war.’ What these military men were not saying was that there was serious concern among strategists and policy makers that entire segments of the population could be so easily manipulated into thinking that something false was something true. Americans had taken very real, physical actions based on something entirely made up. Pandemonium had ensued. Totalitarian nations were able to manipulate their citizens like this, but in America? This kind of mass control had never been seen so clearly and definitively before.
“America was not the only place where government officials were impressed by how easily people could be influenced by a radio broadcast. Adolf Hitler took note as well. He referred to the Americans’ hysterical reaction to the War of the Worlds broadcast in a Berlin speech, calling it ‘evidence of the decadence and corrupt condition of democracy.’ It was later revealed that in the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin had also been paying attention.”
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base
Author: Annie Jacobsen
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