FIGHTING BACK - SHE HAD THE DOCUMENTS: THE KAREN SILKWOOD STORY
Published: May 15, 2026
Duration: 18:43
Oklahoma, 1974. A plutonium plant. A whistleblower. A meeting she never made. And documents no one has ever found.
Garret Fisher covers the Karen Silkwood case — one of the most haunting whistleblower stories in American history, and the one that refuses to resolve into a clean ending. Silkwood was a lab technician at a Kerr-McGee plutonium plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, who became convinced the company was falsifying safety records and endangering its workers. She was elected to the union bargaining committee, testified before the Atomic Energy Commission, and gathered documentation she believed proved the violations. On November 13, 1974, sh...
Garret Fisher covers the Karen Silkwood case — one of the most haunting whistleblower stories in American history, and the one that refuses to resolve into a clean ending. Silkwood was a lab technician at a Kerr-McGee plutonium plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, who became convinced the company was falsifying safety records and endangering its workers. She was elected to the union bargaining committee, testified before the Atomic Energy Commission, and gathered documentation she believed proved the violations. On November 13, 1974, sh...