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==External links== {{external links|date=March 2024}} * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUgrPyQjnzE Authentic EBS nuclear attack warning tape for broadcast from Office of Civil Defense (source: National Archives)] * [https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2022-03/40-654-6207642-019-002-2021.pdf Folder at Reagan Library contains 1981 memo discussing recorded tapes to be played over EBS during nuclear war situation] * [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/m-ebs.html What happened to the Emergency Broadcast System?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517050047/http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/m-ebs.html |date=2008-05-17 }} by Cecil Adams, Chicago Reader * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130121195955/http://ebstest.stlmedia.net/ Personal remembrance of the 1971 false alarm] with scans of relevant Teletype messages and immediately following UPI story * [https://web.archive.org/web/20211209044554/http://ae5d.com/ebs.html EBS Authenticator Word List & more] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120314105005/http://www.conelrad.com/media/tm/tm_01.ram An atypical EBS Test from WHEN Syracuse c. 1975, arranged in the style of a radio jingle] Real Audio * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YRHAro1iTE Another example of WHEN Syracuse's sung version of the EBS Test announcement, c. 1975] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FehaxKkhLU A test of the EBS from WNBC-TV in New York City, 1980-12-24] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SmKDWRLEME A test of the EBS from WHAS-TV Louisville, KY, c. 1994] * [http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/5323/ An EBS Test from KGO-TV in San Francisco, c. 1990] * [http://www.amandfmmorningside.com/wpgc_misc_audio_1981_07_05th_ebs_test_dave_foxx.wma An EBS Test from WPGC in Washington D.C., c. 1981] [[Windows Media Player]] is required to hear this file. * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaHpBlSjnMU A tornado warning from WNAS Cable-TV in New Albany, IN for Clark County, IN, c. 1990] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmCYGdmcNs North Carolina EBS Training Video, c. 1990] * [http://filcro.com/Emergency-Alert-System.html A history of CONELRAD to EBS to EAS from Filcro Media 1951 - 2008, c 2008] The convergent role of each government agency * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgovEUZ7jz0 WFIL's pre recorded attack warning message] * [https://radiotapes.com/special-postings/#Conelrad WCCO-AM Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN pre recorded attack warning messages from 1961 and aircheck of 1971 EBS mistake] [[Category:Cold War history of the United States]] [[Category:Disaster preparedness in the United States]] [[Category:Emergency Alert System]] [[Category:Emergency population warning systems]] [[Category:Civil defense in the United States]] [[Category:Warning systems]] [[Category:1997 disestablishments in the United States]] [[Category:American companies established in 1963]] [[Category:Companies disestablished in 1997]]
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