4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey listeners, we're sharing something special this week. |
0:06.0 | It's an episode of the new podcast, Radioactive. |
0:09.0 | It details the death of 28-year-old Karen Silkwood, which 50 years later continues to haunt Oklahoma and the nation. |
0:17.0 | The young plutonium plant worker died in a fatal crash while driving to meet a reporter with the New York Times, allegedly, to deliver evidence documenting unsafe conditions at the plant. |
0:27.6 | Two reporters who covered the story in 1974 have spent years trying to piece together what many in Oklahoma speculate. |
0:34.6 | Karen Silkwood may have died for what she knew. Now, here newly discovered |
0:39.8 | investigative tapes, deathbed revelations, and long-awaited interviews reexamining what happened |
0:45.6 | that night. 50 years later, the story still resonates. Nuclear secrets, threats to the powerful, |
0:51.9 | and why the truth stubbornly refuses to stay buried. |
0:56.5 | Okay, here comes the episode. |
0:59.1 | You can listen to more episodes of Radioactive wherever you get your podcasts. |
1:18.7 | Last year, my buddy Mike and I found ourselves inside a giant warehouse with hundreds of big wooden storage containers stacked floor to ceiling. |
1:22.7 | It felt like a scene from an Indiana Jones movie. |
1:26.4 | You know, the one where the government stores, |
1:29.0 | the Lost Ark, and a massive warehouse filled with crates where it'll never be found. Well, we were |
1:35.2 | definitely searching for lost treasure, hoping one of these storage containers would hold the |
1:41.4 | key to a 50-year-old mystery. |
1:45.6 | Okay, it's coming out. |
1:47.4 | We pulled out box after box, each one sealed with layers of thick packing tape. |
1:53.8 | There were boxes of toys and old family photo albums and a somewhat creepy ventriloquist dummy. |
2:01.1 | Let me get this out of the way. I can't see what it says. |
2:04.1 | And then. |
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