This Day in History: 1946-02-19

Karen Silkwood born this day in 1946. Silkwood was an anti-nuclear activist who worked at a Kerr-McGee plant nuclear facility near Crescent, Oklahoma. Silkwook and the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union she worked with alleged that Kerr-McGee “tmanufactured faulty fuel rods, falsified product inspection records, and risked employee safety.” She was killed in her car on the way to a meeting with a New York Times reporter.