It remains the deadliest highway disaster ever investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) since its creation.
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By the end of the month, he would be on the cover of Time magazine. On the night of May 19th, Atlantans were happily paying $9.50 to see Paul and Wings in concert as part of the band's multi-city, blockbuster tour. This tour marked the first time in a decade that Paul had performed live on tour in North America. Of course the last time, in 1966, he had still been a Beatle.
As it had on every other evening since July 4, 1974, CBS broadcast its nightly one-minute-long (natch) episode of "Bicentennial Minutes" in primetime. May 19's episode happened to feature British-born songwriter and composer Jule Styne as the narrator, describing an event in the American Revolution that occurred exactly 200 years before, on May 19, 1776. That episode is not available, but here's May 7's "Bicentennial Minute," featuring director Otto Preminger: https://youtu.be/u1HwX6TdHbk
Despite being the last scene of the movie, this was shot before the Rebel hanger scenes, which would be done on the same set.