SPOOKED! How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America
SPOOKED How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America GAIL JARROW CALKINS CREEK AN IMPRINT OF HIGHLIGHTS Honesdale Pennsylvania
For Oona Joan may you never be Spooked
Acknowledgments THANK YOU to these people who shared their time and expertise with me as I worked on this book For providing background on human psychology and behavior and for answering my questions about individual responses to media J Edward Russo professor of Marketing S C Johnson Graduate School of Management Cornell University and Michael Shapiro professor Department of Communication Cornell University For filling me in on key aspects of radio broadcasting and sound production Tish Pearlman broadcast journalist and producer and Nate Richardson producer and musician For providing assistance with primary source research the staffs at the Special Collections Library University of Michigan Ann Arbor and at the National Archives College Park Maryland For help in locating and obtaining difficult-to-find photographs Jeremy Megraw and Thomas Lisanti of the New York Public Library For their considerable skill in transforming a manuscript into a published book the Calkins Creek team And for her dependable counsel on all my historical adventures my trusty editor Carolyn P Yoder GJ
