As accidents and safety issues continued to occur at Kerr-McGee’s Cimarron facility in Crescent, Oklahoma, Karen Silkwood grew increasingly intolerant. When a position opened in the local Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union in the summer of ‘74, Karen, at the urging of others, threw her hat in the ring. She won the position, and in now time found herself in Washington D.C. discussing the plant’s violations at union headquarters and agreeing to secretly collecting information that would prove the allegations against Kerr-McGee. They also went to the Atomic Energy Commission in Bethesda to discuss the issues at hand, something that might have been a grave mistake.

This episode was written by Cathy O’Neal.

Silkwood is produced, researched, and narrated by Erica Lee.

Additional research by Aimee Worley. Edited and produced by Vincent Strange.
Artwork is by Erica Lee and theme music is by Brightside Studio.

For more information about the podcast, including sources, please visit GoneCold.com/Silkwood  

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