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Evaluating historical narratives about the media: Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds On October 30, 1938, a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds allegedly caused listeners to panic. According to newspaper reports at the time, this radio drama too closely followed the structure of actual radio newscasts, deceiving listeners into believing that Earth was under attack by alien forces. Journalists and politicians condemned the show for causing a panic, and the public was outraged. Historians question this narrative, however; for example, they argue the show did not have enough listeners to have caused a true widespread panic. For this assignment, please listen to a recording of the original War of the Worlds broadcast. To listen, click herePlay media comment. (Note: The original source for this recording is the Mercury Theatre Info website (Links to an external site.), which has some contextual information to offer.) After you have listened to the broadcast, please peruse the below set of documents and other sources related to the War of the Worlds panic. Some of these date back to 1938; some are more recent. Some are very short; some are lengthy. Some were taken from academic databases; others, from newspapers and web sites. WAR OF THE WORLDS SOURCES · Newsreel featuring Orson Welles, 10/31/1938. Title on first screen. · 'Attack By Mars' Panic; Orson Wells Speaks 1938/10/31 (Links to an external site.) · New York Times article from 10/31/1938. · Scan of original publication here. · Retyped version with what should be the same content and is easier to read is available for reference here (Links to an external site.). · Daily News article from 10/31/1938. · Scans of the original publication below: · Page 1 · Page 2 · Page 3 · Page 4 · Retyped version with what should be the same content and is easier to read is available for your reference here (Links to an external site.). · Daily News front page from 11/1/1938, available as a PDF here · Article in The Age, an Australian newspaper, from 11/2/1938, available here (Links to an external site.) · Paul Morton, letter to the FCC, 1938. One of many received by the agency. Available on the first page of this PDF. · J.V. Yaukey, letter to the FCC, 1938. Available on the second page of this PDF. · "How to Raise a Child," source: Saturday Evening Post, date: February 3, 1940, pdf available here · "Orson Welles, Appellant, v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., et al., Appellees, No. 17518" (PDF). United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, October 3, 1962. Available here (Links to an external site.). · Robert Bartholomew, 1998. "The Martian Panic Sixty Years Later: What Have We Learned?" PDF file available here. · Justin Levine, 2000, "A History and Analysis of the Federal Communications Commission’s Response to Radio Broadcast Hoaxes." PDF available here. · Holmsten & Lubbertozi, 2000. The Complete War of the Worlds. PDF with exerpt of book available here. · "America Under Attack" by Paul Heyer, 2003, pdf available here · U.S. National Archives: “'Jitterbugs' and 'Crack-pots': Letters to the FCC about the 'War of the Worlds' Broadcast. Fall 2003. Available here (Links to an external site.). · "Once Upon a Time, When Radio Was King…Orson Welles' Broadcast of War of the Worlds," blog post (Links to an external site.) by Emanuel Levy, 6/11/2005 · "Welles, Wells, and the War of the Worlds," NPR, 6/29/2005. Available here. (Links to an external site.) · An NPR Radio Lab episode (Links to an external site.) about War of the Worlds that aired on 3/7/2008 · "Welles Scares Nation." History.com. Oct 30, 2009. Available here (Links to an external site.). · Jack Schafer, "The Master of Debunk," Slate, 5/21/2010. Available here (Links to an external site.). · "War of the Worlds." PBS's American Experience. Available here. (Links to an external site.) · "The End of the World: The 1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast and Press Reaction" post (Links to an external site.) from the British News Archive, 8/25/2015 · Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism. Chapter 2: "Fright beyond measure? The Myth of the War of the Worlds." By W. Joseph Campbell, 2016. Excerpts available via Google Books, here (Links to an external site.). INSTRUCTIONS After reviewing these files, please complete the following tasks:  From each of these files, including the original War of the Worlds broadcast, please create an annotated bibliography using APA style (including alphabetization of the entries by first letter of first word). There should be three bullet points in total beneath each entry, as follows: 1. With your first bullet point, please categorize each document as either a primary source or a secondary source. No additional explanation is needed. 2. With your second bullet point, please categorize each document as a scholarly source or a non-scholarly source. No additional explanation is needed. 3. With your third bullet point, please write a two-sentence assessment of the source’s credibility. Based on what we have discussed and read so far this semester, is this a reputable and reliable source? Do you trust the version of history it presents? Please be brief. Please note that you will refer to this annotated bibliography for your next assignment, in which you present an interpretive argument of the impact of The War of the Worlds radio broadcast. You may wish to review that assignment's criteria prior to beginning your work with these documents.
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War of the Worlds Source Identification        7
WAR OF THE WORLDS SOURCES IDENTIFICATION
Source 1
· This is a primary source.
· This is a non-scholarly sour
ce.
· This source has been collected from a YouTube video, where Orson Wells is speaking on the topic “Attack by Mars”, on the radio. The recording was done on 31st October, 1938, in New York. The clip was published on YouTube, on 15th September, 2006, by Universal Newsreels.
Source 2
· This is a primary source.
· This is a non-scholarly source.
· This source has been collected from a New York Times article “Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact”, which was published on 31st October,1938. This article briefed on, how ‘War of the Worlds’ radio show, scared people residing in America and all around the world.
Source 3
· This is a primary source.
· This is a non-scholarly source.
· This article, with the headline, “War of the Worlds broadcast causes chaos”, was published by Daily News on 31st October, 1938 and was written by George Dixon. An overview of the unbelievable scenes of terror in New York, after the broadcast of the radio show, was given here.
Source 4
· This is a primary source.
· This is a non-scholarly source.
· This source is taken from an article that was published on 1st November, 1938 by the Daily News.
Source 5
· This is a primary source.
· This is a non-scholarly source.
· This article was published in The Age, an Australian newspaper on 2nd November, 1938. The headline stated “Mass Hysteria in USA- Radio broadcast panic.”
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