Emergency Broadcast System - False Alarm of 1971

While browsing Wikipedia, I came across this link, a recording of WOWO-AM in Ft. Wayne, IN participating in the Emergency Broadcast System, when the EBS was inadvertently activated for a national emergency.

http://historyofwowo.com/audio/WOWO-Bob%20SieversEBS_02-20-1971_scoped.mp3

I decided to create a video of what it was like when people thought they were about to be nuked, only to find out..."This is only a test"

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[floaterjr]

[after false alarm] "in other news, Hanes underwear Co. reported their stock going up 48% today."

[Dedmon319]

Radio stations sounded so badass back in the day lol

[pythonfan1]

Good God Almighty!

[camewrig]

wuts the song

[soakgameLLC]

@bigshant2212 let me guess... they play katy perry now?

S::G

[FionnMarr]

That must have been a nervous ten or so minutes for Bob. I can hear the the relief in his voice when he gets told what had happened.

[bigshant2212]

WoWo now a cox radio station.

[Celestia139O]

Wow, atomic fail!

[bga4ever10]

@GJJTexas 30 years before i was born

[awsome123117]

i dont know anything but somethings going on because i can feel it

[Pitterpotter2]

Ahh, what a screw up.

[bossbob]

@skippydmb and @myfordescort There's a video on here where he speaks in '99 about his WOWO career and this incident. At WOWO history website, there is a link to an article where he tells the same story. He gets the dates wrong (maybe due to the passing of time) and what he says doesn't seem to jibe with the events heard here or other accounts of the incident I've read in total. You have to piece all the details from varying sources to really know.