Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for reporting concerns about...

the book Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Rolling Stone writer and activist Howard Kohn, which detailed the life of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear whistle-blower...

plutonium plant criminal case of the 1970s when she and her roommate Karen Silkwood became activists and nuclear whistleblowers after both of their bodies...

death were the subject of the 1983 film Silkwood. In a civil suit against Kerr-McGee by the Estate of Karen Silkwood, Judge Frank Theis told the jury, "If...

in Crescent, Oklahoma; (2) radiological contamination and death of Karen Silkwood (an employee); (3) Kerr-McGee's quality assurance practices; and (4)...

such as Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, the Ed Cantrell murder case, the Karen Silkwood case, and the defense of Geoffrey Fieger. He also defended Brandon Mayfield...

death. On November 5, 1974, Kerr-McGee worker and labor union activist Karen Silkwood found herself exposed to plutonium-239 after working to grind and polish...

latter. Streep portrayed the real-life character of Karen Silkwood in Mike Nichols' drama Silkwood (1983), before starring in her most financially successful...

as OCAW legislative director in the fall of 1974, Mazzocchi mentored Karen Silkwood, a union activist and whistleblower employed in an Oklahoma plutonium...

the critically hailed drama Silkwood (1983) directed by Mike Nichols, inspired by the true-life story of Karen Silkwood, in which her character was a...

Ephron co-scripted the film Silkwood with Alice Arlen. The film, directed by Mike Nichols, starred Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood, a whistleblower at the...

also known for writing a series of articles about labor union activist Karen Silkwood, who mysteriously died while en route to meet Burnham to share evidence...

City, Utah Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect; in Bern Died: Karen Silkwood, 28, American chemical technician and labor union activist, was killed...

Italian-French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1901) 1974 – Karen Silkwood, American technician and activist (b. 1946) 1975 – Olga Bergholz, Russian...

a philosophical drama about nuclear war Silkwood (1983) – inspired by the true-life story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a suspicious car accident while...

learned about forming anti-nuclear organizations. At about the same time, Karen Silkwood, a nuclear plant worker, was killed in a car accident while investigating...

voluntarily took part in a plutonium injection experiment Alvin C. Graves Karen Silkwood Henrietta Lacks Unethical human experimentation in the United States...

elements surrounding U.S. Representative Larry McDonald also behind the Karen Silkwood case with ties to the Intelligence Community and that Franklin may have...

in 1983 with the film Silkwood, starring Meryl Streep, Cher and Kurt Russell, based on the life of whistleblower Karen Silkwood. The film was a financial...

while Silkwood's boyfriend Drew Stephens expressed approval in that Streep had played Karen as a human being rather than a myth, despite Karen's father...

is unknown for sure what the exact circumstances of the death are. Karen Silkwood (28), a nuclear power whistleblower, died in a car accident on 13 November...

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111 women were arrested on one particular day and gave their names as Karen Silkwood, an American nuclear worker who died after campaigning for nuclear safety...

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facility became dangerous. The 1983 Oscar-nominated film Silkwood, based around Karen Silkwood (who became contaminated) and her death (in 1974), is a...

'SILKWOOD' STILL STIRRING ABC Pictures and Kerr-McGee are poised for a battle over facts surrounding the life and death of Karen Silkwood 'SILKWOOD' FLAP...

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brave men and women—Daniel Ellsberg, Martin Luther King Jr., Mark Felt, Karen Silkwood and so on—whose acts of principled defiance are now widely admired."...