And here we are: https://aldianews.com/articles/culture/social/other-war-worlds-sowed-tragedy-ecuador/58526 https://historyradio.org/2017/01/21/the-war-of-the-worlds-in-ecuador/
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 11:08 AM danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/CAGPJw108zcAXESvON%2BM9hnipOwQC8zWZqe7KgDrgx-2jL3jqDw%40mail.gmail.com.
