[Fester Chugabrew]

This is but one example of how stupid and gullible the general public was back then. I hardly think those qualities have decreased since.

[cowboyusa]

Every one was on edge because of the World situation.

[vladimir998]

Were they that gullible?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/the-war-of-the-worlds-panic-was-a-myth/#:~:text=The%20story%20that%20mass,unchallenged%20for%20nearly%20eight%20decades.

If it is a myth that people panicked, then aren’t we the gullible ones for believing the myth?