[78-L] Panic..or myth? (Hey, it was 73 years ago tonight, too)

[Donna Halper]

On 10/31/2011 3:35 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
> Elizabeth discussed this a few years ago and it makes sense -- even the
> lurid news reports gave the estimate of the number of people who
> panicked at one million.  The population of the U.S was 130 million.
>    

And many who did not panic lived here in Boston.  The reason was 
simple:  our local CBS affiliate, WEEI, did not air the Mercury Theater 
that night, preferring instead to broadcast a locally produced special.  
People had to try to pull in the station in Providence that carried the 
program.  Some evidently did, but for the most part, it was a non-event 
in Boston.