Passage 3—Humanities This passage is from an essay about the unusual fects that a famous radio program had on its listeners. ‘On October 30, 1938, the night before Halloween, the Mercury Theater radio program broadcast a dramatization of The War of the Worlds, by British writer H. G. Wells, program began as if it were a musical evening with * Ramon Raguello’s orchestra in a New York hotel, when ‘news bulletins interrupted to report that a strange meteorite hhad struck New Jersey. A few minutes Iter, the music was replaced by eyewitness observations ofthe object itself, an immense, yellowish-white eylinder that had 10 crater in a nearby farm, Soon, war machines itand began annihilating the United States, lic was relatively unfamiliar with seince ‘that point in history, and many took the actual news reports. Many thousands of peo 2s news, and 1,200,000 not take many of ‘switehboards of p