Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery

4.7 (669)
犯罪纪实
一周一更

Karen Silkwood’s death 50 years ago this November continues to haunt Oklahoma and the nation. The 28-year-old plutonium plant worker died in a fatal crash while driving to meet a reporter with The New York Times allegedly to deliver evidence documenting unsafe conditions at the plant. Two reporters who covered the Silkwood story in 1974 have spent years trying to piece together what many in Oklahoma speculate: Karen Silkwood may have died for what she knew. Fifty years later, hear newly-discovered investigative tapes, deathbed conversations and long-awaited interviews reexamining what happened that night.

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Introducing 'Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery'

Karen Silkwood’s death 50 years ago this November continues to haunt Oklahoma and the nation. The 28-year-old plutonium plant worker died in a fatal crash while driving to meet a reporter with The New York Times allegedly to deliver evidence documenting unsafe conditions at the plant. Two reporters who covered the Silkwood story in 1974 have spent years trying to piece together what many in Oklahoma speculate: Karen Silkwood may have died for what she knew. Fifty years later, hear newly-discovered investigative tapes, deathbed conversations and long-awaited interviews reexamining what happened that night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

10月23日

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Great mystery

2天前

eycastsz

Couldn’t stop listening
Good Podcast

2天前

composeyourself

Thank you for honoring Karen’s memory through this podcast. They make a great point about how big tech companies seem to be gearing up for a second try with nuclear energy. The reviewer who seems to find this idea silly or unimportant misses the point. Yes, we do use services provided by big tech, but we shouldn’t be using them so much. Humans as a whole are using these technologies entirely too much, and the right answer may not be to give new life to an energy source that has proven extremely dangerous. If we do try nuclear energy again, I hope we will really take what we learned from the last time and do better. I hope that Karen’s legacy and care for worker safety can be carried on somehow in tangible ways in the future. Best wishes to the writers and to the family.
Worthwhile Listen

6天前

Lucky_Penny_13

Good reporting, great storytelling. Not my usual type of host-duo choice, but what an interesting and telling story about big nuclear business in America and the expendability of women at the hands of those with power. Excellent for binge-ability.
Narrator’s can’t stop talking about themselves

2天前

hangel11

Painfully slow retelling of story told better on other podcasts already

Karen Silkwood’s death 50 years ago this November continues to haunt Oklahoma and the nation. The 28-year-old plutonium plant worker died in a fatal crash while driving to meet a reporter with The New York Times allegedly to deliver evidence documenting unsafe conditions at the plant. Two reporters who covered the Silkwood story in 1974 have spent years trying to piece together what many in Oklahoma speculate: Karen Silkwood may have died for what she knew. Fifty years later, hear newly-discovered investigative tapes, deathbed conversations and long-awaited interviews reexamining what happened that night.