On Tue, 9 Mar 2021, Jim Ellwanger wrote:
If you ever want to get the exact text of a "Jeopardy!" clue, you can go
to j-archive.com <http://j-archive.com/>, which generally posts each
day's game pretty quickly (often before it airs in much of the country).
Thanks.
The category was Radio History, and the clue read:
A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused
mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station
It was on the front page of the New York Times on February 14, 1949
("'Mars Raiders' Cause Quito Panic; Mob Burns Radio Plant, Kills 15") --
not an urban legend. (Many of the stories about panic caused by the 1938
U.S. version were what we would today call clickbait, but it was a
different story in Ecuador.)
I wouldn't even have the slightest idea as to where
to start, but is there any way to backtrack and try
to find actual, on scene, first hand reporting from
Quito, as opposed to furriner reports?
As you noted, the claims of rioting _in the US_ were
about as founded in reality as the National Enquirer
was in its heydey, so I've really got to question these
types of allegations.
