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Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich is arrested at his home at 2am by the FBI, and taken to Ellis Island, where he will be held for over three weeks, because he is an immigrant with a communist background. Reich's work and beliefs will subsequently lead him into many conflicts with US authorities and he will eventually die in jail in 1957. Kate Bush's 1985 song Cloudbusting tells the story of Reich's arrest and incarceration through the eyes of his son, Peter.
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