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The Tapes, from Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery

12 November 2024 - 39 mins
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Sharing an episode of the new podcast Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery. It details the

death of a 28-year-old whistleblower which, 50 years later, continues to haunt Oklahoma and

the nation. The young plutonium plant worker died in a fatal crash while driving to meet a

reporter with The New York Times. She’d agreed to deliver sensitive documents that were never

found. Two reporters who covered the story in 1974 have spent years trying to piece together

what many in Oklahoma speculate: Karen Silkwood may have died for what she knew. Now,

hear newly-discovered investigative tapes, deathbed revelations and long-awaited interviews

reexamining what happened that night. Fifty years l...

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