It's been half a century since a woman was killed in a car crash while on her way to meet with a reporter, hoping to expose wrongdoing at the nuclear plant where she was employed.
That woman was Karen Silkwood, who died in the crash just 7 miles south of Crescent, Oklahoma, on her way to Oklahoma City to meet with then-New York Times reporter David Burnham. Her attempts at whistleblowing and subsequent death brought national attention to the dangers of the nuclear power industry.
While state and federal investigators determined Silkwood died in a single-vehicle crash, some still subscribe to the belief that someone purposely ran her off the road.
As the 50th anniversary of Silkwood's death occurs this month, here's everything you need to know about the events leading up to her death and the conspiracy theories that have lasted for decades.
Silkwood was born February 19, 1946, in Longview, Texas. She studied medical technology for a year at Lamar College, then married and had three children.
In 1972, newly divorced and having left custody of her children to her husband, Silkwood moved to Oklahoma where was hired as a laboratory technician at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron River nuclear plant near Crescent, Oklahoma. There, she helped make plutonium fuel rods for nuclear reactors.
Not long after starting her job, she became a member of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union and participated in a nine-week union strike.
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