The Karen Silkwood Mystery
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Karen Silkwood is a name recognizable to many Oklahomans, but her life, and mysterious death, is one that – 50 years later – is full of unanswered questions.
Silkwood worked as a laboratory technician at a plutonium plant in Crescent, Oklahoma. In 1974, she died in a car crash on her way to meet with a journalist from The New York Times to expose evidence of workplace safety violations and quality control shortcuts.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol ruled her death to be the result of a single-vehicle crash after Silkwood was believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel.
Her story inspired the Academy Award-nominated film Silkwood and seemed to end with a $1.38 million settlement with Kerr-McGee Corp., the company that owned the plutonium plant.
KOCO 5 spent two years investigating the contamination and death of Silkwood. What was found goes far beyond Oklahoma, unearthing a 50-year cover-up and new evidence exposed.
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