On this day in 1974, labor activist Karen Silkwood died under mysterious circumstances. As a chemical technician at a plutonium plant in Oklahoma, she raised concerns about health and safety, saying she felt workers were being contaminated with dangerous amounts of plutonium from nuclear reactors. After she gathered enough evidence, she arranged to meet with a New York Times reporter to go public and en route to the meeting, had a fatal car accident. The documents she claimed proved wrongdoing on the part of the plant were missing from the vehicle, and there was much speculation that this was an assassination. The 1983 film Silkwood starring Meryl Streep is based on her activism
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