The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-...
Rashke, Richard / White, Karen![The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/186/18698009/CHSBZCOP0318698009.jpg)
Karen Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant, was killed in a car crash on her way to deliver important documents to a newspaper reporter in 1974. Silkwood was a union activist concerned about health and safety issues at the plant, and her death at age 28 was considered by many to be highly suspicious. Was it Kerr-McGee's revenge on a troublesome whistle-blower? Or was it part of a much larger conspiracy reaching fr...