Air Raid
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As Myron Weiss, Associate Editor of Time Magazine, wrote to Dr. DeWitt Poole the following morning after the psy-op took place:</p>
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"Oct. 31, 1938</p>
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Dr. Dr. Poole:</p>
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I hope that you analyze that beautiful clinical demonstration of public reactions which Columbia Broadcasting System stirred up Sunday night by means of Actor Orson Welles' radio version of Writer H. G. Wells "The War of the Worlds."</p>
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And compare those reactions with the lack of uproar which followed Poet Archibald MacLeish's play "Air Raid" over CBS last Friday evening.</p>
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Will you please give my greetings to Dr. Childs.</p>
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Sincerely,
Myron Weiss
Associate Editor."</p>
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As Dr. Poole replied to Mr. Weiss:</p>
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"Dear Mr. Weiss:</p>
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Returning from a short absence I find your letter of October 31 concerning the sitr made by "The War of the Worlds", and I have talked the matter over with Dr. Childs. From him I learn that the interesting phenomenon to which you refer is already being studied by our Radio Research Project under the leadership of Professor Hadley Cantril.</p>
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Yours sincerely,
D. C. Poole"
Princeton, Historical Subject Files Collection (AC #109) Box 346 Folder 6</p>