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Karen Silkwood

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Name: Karen Silkwood
Birth Date: February 19, 1946
Death Date: November 13, 1974
Place of Birth: Longview, Texas, United States
Place of Death: Crescent, Oklahoma, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: nuclear facility technician, activist

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Biography of Karen Silkwood
1,364 words, approx. 5 pages
Karen Silkwood (1946-1974), a nuclear plant laborer who died while investigating safety violations made by her employer, is viewed as a martyr by anti-nuclear activists. Her story was made into a film, Silkwood, in 1983. On the night of November 13,...


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Karen Silkwood Information
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Karen Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, United States. Silkwood's job was making plutonium pellets for nuclear reactor...


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National Review
Silkwood: end of the fantasy road. (Karen Silkwood)
01/27/1984: 408 words, approx. 1 pages
AT THE END of the new movie Silkwood, Karen Silkwood, played by Meryl Streep, dies in an automobile crash while en route to a meeting with a New York Times reporter; she is bearing documents revealing serious transgressions by the Kerr-McGee Corporation, a...
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National Review
Silkwood.
03/23/1984: 1,173 words, approx. 4 pages
Silkwood THERE ARE very serious problems with Silkwood. As I keep having to say, you shouldn't make biographical films about contemporary persons unless you know the facts and are in a position to tell them. This, however, is very rarely the case,...
 


 

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