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criminally listed and paranormal listed. For today's case we're going back to May 1975.

On May 6 and May 7th 1975, 36 tornadoes touched down in the American Midwest and the South.

South Dakota, Iowa, Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana were all hit by tornadoes.

The most devastating tornado touched down on the afternoon of May 6, 1975, in metropolitan Omaha, Nebraska.

It was an F4, which is the second strongest tornado.

Three people were killed.

One woman was pulled from her house and found in the backyard of a home, several homes away from her own.

130 people were injured.

That single tornado caused $250 to $300 million in damage.

Accounting for inflation in 2004, that was $1.4 billion to $1.7 billion.

It is one of the costliest tornadoes in the history of Nebraska.

On May 14, 1975, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was presented with the

1996 Academy Award for Best Story. Trumbo had won the award 19 years earlier for the film, The Brave One, which he wrote under

the name Robert Rich.

Trumbo started his screen-rank career in 1936.

In 1943, he joined the Communist Party in the United States.

In 1947, the second Red Scare, or McCarthyism, was ramped.

It's called McCarthyism because the Red Scare's driving force was Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Several Hollywood writers and directors were accused of trying to influence Americans with communist ideologies through their films.

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