"The German-Soviet non-aggression pact" hadn't been announced yet, but many people already began to feel that the world around them was starting to change!
People were experiencing a new feeling.
A sense of insecurity and fear, a feeling that the world was beginning to fall apart, a feeling that the supposedly solid and reliable principles... whether economic, political, or international morality, were collapsing beneath their feet.
This sensation was making people nervous.
This tense feeling persisted until today, giving people a real sense of why they felt this way.
On the morning of August 24, 1939 -- Orson Welles of the Mercury Theater broadcast an adaptation of H.G. Wells' science fiction novel "World War" on ABC Radio.
To make the story more vivid, Welles arranged it as a real-time news broadcast.
After an announcer clearly explained the nature of the program, a voice began broadcasting a mundane weather report.
