ABC Audio's new podcast series reexamines the mysterious death of the whistleblower Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker who died in a fatal 1974 crash.
She was going to try to blow the whistle on nuclear safety, but never made it. Fifty years after the crash that killed Karen Silkwood on a dark stretch of Oklahoma's Highway 74, a rekindled effort ...
The story of Karen Silkwood made national headlines for a time and inspired the 1983 Mike Nichols film, "Silkwood," starring Meryl Streep. MORE: Karen Silkwood's sudden death unpacked in ABC ...
The official story was that Karen Silkwood died in a one-car crash on Nov. 13, 1974. She was on her way to meet a New York Times journalist, reportedly to hand over documents she'd secretly been ...