American Decades
"Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact"
Newspaper headline, Newspaper article
Date: October 31, 1938
Source: "Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact." The New York Times, October 31, 1938, 1, 4. Reprinted online at http://www.jd.gosling.btinternet.co.uk/wotw/docs.htm; website home page: http://www.jd.gosling.btinternet.co.uk/wotw/ (accessed March 13, 2003).
Introduction
News reports grew increasingly tense during the 1930s. The United States teetered on the brink of complete economic devastation following the stock market crash of 1929. Then, following the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany in 1933, the threat of war mounted year by year. By the fall of 1938, Germany had annexed Austria, taken over Czechoslovakia, and was openly planning for a greater European invasion...
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1930's Media Primary Sources
- Fortune Magazine Covers
- Amos 'n' Andy Radio Episode 920
- Near v. Minnesota
- "An Emergency Is On!"
- Roosevelt and the Media
- Photography of the Great Depression
- The Lindbergh Case and the Media
- "Landon 1,293,669; Roosevelt, 972,897: Final Returns in the Digest's Poll of Ten Million Voters"
- The Rise of National Magazines
- "Are We Going Communist? A Debate"
- "How to Stay Out of War"
- "The Crash of the Hindenburg"
- Action Comics No. 1
- "Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact"
- "Television in the 1930s"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
