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 Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:48 am Post subject: Karen Silkwood - car rammed, documents stolen |
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Thanks to outsider for bringing this up... yes, Karen Silkwood's death is regarded as "mysterious" even by wikipedia. However the evidence of the "missing documents" means that this can't be passed off as an accident when there is evidence of foul play and motive, means and opportunity...
From wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood
| Quote: | Silkwood said she had assembled documentation for her claims, including company papers. She decided to go public with this evidence, and contacted David Burnham, a New York Times journalist, who was interested in her story. On November 13, 1974, Silkwood left a union meeting at the Hub Cafe in Crescent. Another attendee of that meeting later testified that Silkwood had a binder and a packet of documents with her at the cafe. Silkwood got into her car and headed alone for Oklahoma City, about 30 miles (48 km) away, to meet with Burnham, the New York Times reporter, and Steve Wodka, an official of her union's national office.[10]
Death
Later that evening, Silkwood's body was found in her car, which had run off the road and struck a culvert. The car contained no documents. She was pronounced dead at the scene in what was believed to be an accident. The trooper at the scene remembers that he found one or two tablets of the sedative methaqualone (Quaalude) in the car, and he remembers finding marijuana. The police report indicated that she fell asleep at the wheel. The coroner found 0.35 milligrams of methaqualone per 100 milliliters of blood at the time of her death — an amount almost twice the recommended dosage for inducing drowsiness.
Some journalists have theorized that Silkwood's car was rammed from behind by another vehicle, with the intent to cause an accident that would result in her death.[11] Skid marks from Silkwood's car were present on the road, suggesting that she was trying to get back onto the road after being pushed from behind.[12]
Investigators also noted damage on the rear of Silkwood's vehicle that, according to Silkwood's friends and family, had not been present before the accident. As the crash was entirely a front-end collision, it did not explain the damage to the rear of her vehicle. A microscopic examination of the rear of Silkwood's car showed paint chips that could have come only from a rear impact by another vehicle. Silkwood's family claimed to know of no accidents of any kind that Silkwood had had with the car, and that the 1974 Honda Civic she was driving was new when purchased. She had filed no insurance claims on the vehicle.[13]
The car contained no documents, though her relatives said that she had taken these with her and had placed them on the seat beside her. According to Silkwood's family, she had received several threatening phone calls very shortly before her death. Speculation about foul play has never been substantiated.[14]
Because of concerns about contamination, the Atomic Energy Commission and the State Medical Examiner requested analysis of Silkwood's organs by the Los Alamos Tissue Analysis Program. Much of the radiation was in her lungs, suggesting that plutonium had been inhaled. When her tissues were further examined, the second highest deposits were found in her gastrointestinal organs.[15]
Public suspicions led to a federal investigation into plant security and safety. The National Public Radio reported that this investigation had found that 44 to 66 pounds of plutonium had been misplaced at the plant.
Kerr-McGee closed its nuclear-fuel plants in 1975. The Department of Energy (DOE) reported the Cimarron plant as decontaminated and decommissioned in 1994.[16]
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According to Richard L. Rashke's book, The Killing of Karen Silkwood (2000), investigators of Silkwood's death, as well as the Kerr-McGee corporation and their Cimarron plant, received death threats. One of the investigators disappeared under mysterious circumstances. One of the witnesses committed suicide shortly before she was to testify against the Kerr-McGee corporation about the alleged happenings at the plant.[18] Rashke wrote that the Silkwood family's legal team were followed, threatened with violence, and physically assaulted.[19]
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The book says that the United States government covered up many details about Silkwood's death, and allegedly carried out her assassination.[20] |
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