The Wreck

At an Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union meeting in Crescent, Oklahoma, Karen Silkwood clinched documents tight. From the gathering at the Hub Café, she phoned her boyfriend to make sure he’d arrive on time to pick up a union official and a newspaper reporter from the Will Rogers airport in Oklahoma City. When the meeting was over, Karen hopped into her ’73 Honda Civic and sped south down Highway 74 to make another. This meeting was to blow the whistle on her employer, the billion-dollar nuclear industry giant, Kerr-McGee. Karen Silkwood was to join a list of brave and selfless whistleblowers, but she never made it.

This episode was written by Cathy O’Neal and Vincent Stange. Silkwood is produced, researched, and narrated by Erica Lee with editing by Vincent Strange. Additional research by Aimee Worley. Artwork by Erica Lee, theme music by Brightside Studio.

For more information about the podcast, including sources, please visit gonecold.com/silkwood.

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