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Page 1: Almost every home had a radio in it Soap operas Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds scared many listeners who believed that aliens were actually invading
Page 2: Almost every home had a radio in it Soap operas Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds scared many listeners who believed that aliens were actually invading

• Almost every home had a radio in it

• Soap operas

• Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds scared many listeners who believed that aliens were actually invading the US.

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Orson Welles

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Heigh Ho Heigh Ho….

off to the movies they go

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Marx Brothers in Duck Soup

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Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

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• John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath

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Migrant Mother

• Famous photograph by Dorthea Lange

• Lange's field notes of the images read:– "Seven hungry children.

Father is native Californian. Destitute in pea pickers’ camp … because of failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tires to buy food."[4]