Books by Hadley Cantril

In 1938, Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds", causing panic amongst listeners. Originally published in 1940, this text shows that the impact of the broadcast had less to do with what went out over the air than with the "standards of judgment" people did or did not use in evaluating what they heard.

On Halloween night 1938, Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of the H