Her Last Whistle - Stclair, Jennifer
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Karen Silkwood is a name recognizable to many Oklahomans, but her story is one that - 50 years later - is full of unanswered questions. Silkwood worked as a laboratory technician at a plutonium plant in Crescent, Oklahoma. In 1974, she died in a car crash on her way to meet with a journalist from The New York Times to expose evidence of workplace safety violations and quality control shortcuts. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol ruled her death to be the result of a single-vehicle crash after Silkwood was believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel. Her story inspired the Academy Award-nominated film…mehr

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Karen Silkwood is a name recognizable to many Oklahomans, but her story is one that - 50 years later - is full of unanswered questions. Silkwood worked as a laboratory technician at a plutonium plant in Crescent, Oklahoma. In 1974, she died in a car crash on her way to meet with a journalist from The New York Times to expose evidence of workplace safety violations and quality control shortcuts. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol ruled her death to be the result of a single-vehicle crash after Silkwood was believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel. Her story inspired the Academy Award-nominated film Silkwood and seemed to end with a $1.38 million settlement with Kerr-McGee Corp., the company that owned the plutonium plant. "I don't think people understand the finality of it - how it ended up. They just think the Silkwood case went on. There was a movie about it, obviously," Michael Meadows, Silkwood's son, said. "It wasn't the end of the story..." Get the book to read more about what transpired
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