The Killing of Karen Silkwood is an updated edition of the groundbreaking book

[Omaha Steve]

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The Killing of Karen Silkwood By Richard Rashke

This is an updated edition of the groundbreaking book about the death of union activist Karen Silkwood, an employee of a plutonium processing plant, who was killed in a mysterious car crash on her way to deliver important documents to a newspaper reporter in 1974. Silkwood’s death at age 28 was highly suspicious: she had been working on health and safety issues at the plant, and a lot of people stood to benefit by her death.

The issues this book explores -- whistleblowers, worker safety, the environment, and nuclear vulnerability -- are as relevant today as they were 38 years ago. This edition includes a new foreword by labor scholar and activist Kate Bronfenbrenner, a new preface, and three short chapters that explore what has been learned about Silkwood since the book’s original publication in 1981.

If all you know about Karen Silkwood, her work, and the circumstances surrounding her death is what you saw in the movie Silkwood, with Meryl Streep portraying the young activist, you’ll be in for a real awakening: the author, an investigative reporter, explores the possibility of involvement not only by the Kerr-McGee Corporation, but by the Atomic Energy Commission, the FBI and the CIA.

"Impressive and vital...meets a demanding test of objectivity."
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

"Riveting...as fascinating and gripping as anything John le Carre or Agatha Christie could devise."
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

426 pages paperback

Price: $24.95

[midnight]

1. Not many people had access to information like we do now. Many more pieces of the pie coming

together.

[UpInArms]

2. I'm mad too, Eddie

and if any of you were there, you will remember

[formercia]

4. I almost went to work there

I was offered a job at KM, but I took one look at my work area and turned it down. Everything in the room had a coating of Yellow Cake on it.

[UpInArms]

5. used to ride horses out in Crescent

knew Dusty

was a long time ago

[formercia]

6. Yes it was.

People don't realize how powerful KM was. I met Sen. Kerr's sister when I lived in OKC. She seemed like a very nice lady. She had this large oil portrait of the Senator in her living room.
I went to College in Edmond.Was on staff at OSU.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

12. My dad worked for KM in transport at that time.

He's from that area (Crescent, Guthrie, Mulhall-Orlando).
I grew up in Kingfisher.
It's exciting to find someone on here who's just been here!
Duckie

[Omaha Steve]

7. I went through a nuke plant detector and set off the level to high alarm once

While in high school I filled vending machines. As I was the the Ft. Calhoun plant I went through the exposed detector. That was a very bad feeling when it went off.

[formercia]

8. Long Scrubdown

Some folks from the Glomar that were pulling up that Soviet Sub in the Pacific, spent 2 weeks in decontamination. Every bit of the Sub was contaminated with Plutonium that had gone into solution and precipitated out on the Steel. They came out pink as newborns.

I bet you had that Happy Camper feeling......

[spooky3]

3. glad to see this renewed attention - also, Cher was great in this movie. Everyone should see

the movie.

[Overseas]

9. K&R.

[Omaha Steve]

10. Yesterday was the anniversary of Karen's death

In case you missed it.

[bananas]

13. I just crossposted this thread to the E/E forum.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x317305

[Horse with no Name]

11. I live right by there

and drive the same road she was killed on.

When they filmed the movie in this area...I was at Penneys at the mall in Sherman and saw Cher, Meryl Streep and Kurt Russell shopping.

This story is gripping. Glad to see more evidence coming to light.