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Biography of Karen Silkwood
Name: Karen Silkwood
Birth Date: February 19, 1946
Death Date: November 13, 1974
Place of Birth: Longview, Texas, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: nuclear facility technician, activist
Karen Silkwood
Karen Silkwood (1946-1974), a nuclear plant laborer who died while investigating safety violations made by her employer, is viewed as a martyr by anti-nuclear activists. Her story was made into a film, Silkwood, in 1983.On the night of November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, a technician at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron River nuclear facility in Crescent, Oklahoma, was driving her white Honda to Oklahoma City. There she was to deliver a manila folder full of alleged health and safety violations at the plant to a friend, Drew Stephens, a New York Times reporter and national union representative. Seven miles out of Crescent, however, her car went off the road, skidded for a hundred yards, hit a guardrail, and plunged off the embankment. Silkwood was killed in the crash, and the manila folder was not found at the scene when Stephens arrived a few hours later. Nor has it come to light since. Although Kerr-McGee was …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…South PacificCold War beganFrench forces bombed Haiphong killing some 6,000 VietnameseAt the time of Silkwood's death:Richard Nixon was president of the United StatesIndia detonated its first nuclear deviceNixon resigned from officeThe American Telephone Corporation barred discrimination against homosexualsThe times:1950-1953: Korean War1957-1975: Vietnam WarSilkwood's contemporaries:Cher (1946-) American actress/singerDonald Trump (1946-) American businessmanCamille Paglia (1947-) feminist writerDanielle Steel (1947-) American writerCarlos Salinas (1948-) President of MexicoAnnie Leibovitz (1949-) American photographerSelected world events:1946: The McMahon Act passed by Congress established a civilian U.S. Atomic Energy Commission1954:The world's first nuclear power station began producing electricity for Soviet industry and agriculture1969: Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y., drew 300,000 youths1974: South Carolina evangelist Jim Bakker founded the PTL (Praise the Lord) television ministry Further Reading booksKohn, Howard, Who Killed Karen Silkwood?, Summit Books, 1981.Rashke, Richard, The Killing of Karen Silkwood, Houghton, 1981.periodicalsMs., April, 1975, pp. 59-76.Newsweek, September 9, 1978, p. 26.Rolling Stone, June 11, 1992, pp. 92.Science News, February 4, 1984, pp. 74.
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