Question

What was the police response to the panic caused by the radio version of the War of the Worlds?

Answer 1

B. The police sent out notices telling everyone that the broadcast was a dramatization

Answer 2

The War of the Worlds is a fictional novel written by Herbert George Wells and it was first published in 1898. It describes a Martian invasion to the earth. It was then adapted for the radio by the name of "The War of the Worlds" , an episode of the American radio drama anthology series. The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed the Radio Drama and it was narrated by the actor and future film-maker Orson Welles.

The police response to the panic caused by the radio version of the War of the Worlds was that:

B. The police sent out notices telling everyone that the broadcast was a dramatization.

It produced the effect that the audience needed at that time, calmness after the chaos. The audience was at the brink of mass hysteria.