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To: Crocodile who wrote (6257)1/26/2004 2:12:20 PM
From: bob  Respond to of 20773
 
<<I'm trying to think of a good example of pre-9-11-hysteria, but I can't really come up with one. Anyone else??? >>

Gore as President?



To: Crocodile who wrote (6257)1/26/2004 2:26:16 PM
From: redfish  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 20773
 
"I'm trying to think of a good example of pre-9-11-hysteria, but I can't really come up with one."

You really have to go back to the height of the Cold War for that. Maybe the McCarthy witchhunts?



To: Crocodile who wrote (6257)1/26/2004 2:40:57 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 20773
 
I'm trying to think of a good example of pre-9-11-hysteria, but I can't really come up with one. Anyone else???

The War of the Worlds broadcast.

The early concerns about AIDS, when people thought it might we wildly contagious and untontrollably fatal.

Earlier on, the response to lepers and leprosy.


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