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Bill Geerhart
@CONELRAD6401240
Editor and co-founder of CONELRAD. Also at: @conelrad6401240.bsky.social

Feb 20, 2023, 5 tweets

1/5. #OTD in 1971: The Great EBS Scare of '71. Listen to how WOWO's (Ft Wayne, IN) Bob Sievers [1917-2007] handled things on the air... #PartidgeFamily

2/5. "I can't imagine how the hell I did it." - Wayland S. Eberhardt [1921-1996], the teletype operator responsible for the Great EBS Scare of '71. His FOIA'd personnel file reflects that he worked another 5 years on Cheyenne Mountain.

3/5. The Great EBS Scare of '71 made the front page of the Sunday New York Times.

4/5. Louis I. Smoyer [1911-1999] shows an @AP reporter how the Great EBS Scare of '71 happened.

5/5. Code Word Hatefulness. The errant teletype message that started the Great EBS Scare of '71. Read more here: conelrad.blogspot.com/2010/09/code-w…

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