On November 13, 1974, a nuclear lab technician named Karen Silkwood was reported dead in a single-car accident just outside Oklahoma City. Silkwood was on her way to meet a reporter from the New York Times to deliver evidence that her employer, Kerr-McGee, was hiding records of defective nuclear fuel rods. This evidence has never been found. Shortly after the crash, Karen's friends and co-workers began to question the official record of her car accident. Further investigation would reveal that her death might not have been an accident after all.
SOURCES:
The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case by Richard Rashke
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1193179.The_Killing_of_Karen_Silkwood
Karen Silkwood: The Case of the Activist's Death by Howard Kohn
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/karen-silkwood-the-case-of-the-activists-death-52287/
Karen Silkwood Remembered 1946--1974 by Tony Mazzocchi,BMWE Journal, November/December 1999
https://www.bmwe.org/journal/1999/12dec/b04.htm
Paper in Nashville Dismisses Writer Linked to the F.B.I. by David Burnham, New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/08/archives/paper-in-nashville-dismisses-writer-linked-to-the-fbi-newspaper-in.html
