One fact is that the myth that people believed it was real is after all just a myth, people didn't actually believe that aliens were attacking for real. Second fact is that it made Orson Welles extremely famous throughout America. Third fact is that many newspapers and media corporations accused it of being deceptive on purpose because the form was that of a news bulletin. One fact about the lifestyle is that the country was recovering from the great depression and was doing quite well considering how poor everyone was only recently. Second lifestyle fact is that people were slowly getting ready for war because WW2 had already begun in Europe. It was also the time when people early beginnings of development of things such as computers and jet propulsion and nuclear energy.