Radio covers the Indian scare

Broadcaster

WHA (Radio station : Madison, Wis.)

Date

• February 26, 1947

Summary

• A dramatization imagining how radio, had it existed, would have covered an incident characterized as the "Indian scare" in 1862 Plymouth, Wisconsin. A radio announcement of an alleged Indian uprising in Minnesota whips some Wisconsin settlers into a panic. The story continues with how the settlers debunk the rumors.