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December 4, 2024

IMPACT x Nightline: What Happened to Karen Silkwood? The Lost Tapes (12/5)

THURSDAY, DEC. 5 IMPACT x Nightline: “What Happened to Karen Silkwood? The Lost Tapes” (312) – Streaming Only on Hulu Logline: Lost tapes and new discoveries in a mysterious car crash that killed Karen Silkwood, a young mother. Silkwood’s story fascinated generations, inspiring an Oscar®-nominated film starring Meryl Streep. Was it an accident or something more sinister? Extended Logline: This week, “IMPACT x Nightline” goes inside a renewed investigation into the 1974 death of Karen Silkwood, a young mother and chemical technician who was outspoken about health and safety at a nuclear fuel plant owned by her employer, Kerr-McGee. Silkwood died in a single-car crash while on her way to meet The New York Times reporter David Burnham when authorities say she fell asleep at the wheel just miles from a union meeting she had just attended. She’d agreed to deliver sensitive documents that were never found after the crash. The mysterious circumstances surrounding Silkwood’s death captured na

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