The Silkwood Mystery: Nuclear Whistleblower's Fatal Drive

Karen Silkwood died in a car crash on her way to expose safety violations at a nuclear facility. Was it an accident—or something darker?

On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old laboratory technician at Kerr-McGee's nuclear facility in Oklahoma, died when her car veered off the highway near Crescent. She was driving to meet a New York Times journalist with evidence of safety violations. Five decades later, her death remains controversial.