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I know what happened.





On the night of November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, a technician at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron River nuclear facility in Crescent, Oklahoma, was driving her white Honda to Oklahoma City. There she was to deliver a manila folder full of alleged health and safety violations at the plant to a friend, Drew Stephens, a New York Times reporter and national union representative. Seven miles out of Crescent, however, her car went off the road, skidded for a hundred yards, hit a guardrail, and plunged off the embankment. Silkwood was killed in the
crash, and the manila folder was not found at the scene when Stephens arrived a few hours later. Nor has it come to light since. Although Kerr-McGee was a prominent Oklahoma employer whose integrity had never been challenged, as a part of the nuclear power industry it had many adversaries.


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I think her car was set up. I think her boss either had someone do it, or did it himself. I mean the night she goes to tell on him, she dies, and the folder mysteriously dissapears? He did it and stole the folder.

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Could be.

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I agree with the original poster-it's the most logical explanation it HAD to be someone from the company a total stranger wouldn't know to steal the folder

It's a dog-eat-dog world out there,and I'm wearing Milk-bone underwear

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Remember this is a film and they do take a creative licence on things. Now do I thinnk she was killed? Well IMO maybe. It has been over 40 years and nobody has come forward with anything. I am not saying she wasn't murder. I just think after all this time someone would of said something.

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The film shows a folder but it was not really known whether there was one in the car. It seems like there would have been something though to accompany her interview.

The bigger question was why did Karen have such a high tranquilizer level in her system?

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People who saw her at the union meeting at the cafe shortly before the crash testified that they saw her with a manilla folder as she was leaving but it wasn't found in the car.

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But it is possible that they might of saw something else. Now again I am not saying she wasn't murdered. I would think SOMETHING would of came up by now. An eyewitness? Someone turning someone in. I know that the company that she worked for did pay out a huge settlement to her children after the film was released. "That Was Suspicious"

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Maybe they'll tell us about Jimmy Hoffa at the same time that they give info on Karen Silkwood. :-)

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