listeners all over the United States began to panic.
People filled the roads,hid in cellars,loaded guns,and even wrapped their heads in wet towels as protection from the martians' poison gas.
People desperately wanted to defend themselves against aliens.
Although the radio broadcast had warned listeners four times that this was a dramatized version of H.G. Wells's story The War of The Worlds
performed by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater