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The Most DANGEROUS Video On The Internet_ Human Experiments_ Nuclear Secrets _ Government Cover-Ups · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: Between nineteen forty four and nineteen seventy four, the US
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  Speaker 1: government sponsored thousands of human radiation experiments involving scientists, military officials,
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  Speaker 1: and government doctors, and funding from several big government agencies
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  Speaker 1: and universities such as Vanderbilt University and UC Berkeley. Over
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  Speaker 1: twenty thousand humans were involved in these top secret projects
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  Speaker 1: to develop data to protect the safety of nuclear weapons workers.
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  Speaker 1: This was largely in part due to the Atomic Energy
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  Speaker 1: Commission's establishment in nineteen forty six, when Harry S. Truman
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  Speaker 1: signed the McMahon Atomic Energy Act, transferring the control of
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  Speaker 1: atomic energy from military to civilian hands. This shift gave
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  Speaker 1: the members complete control of plants, laboratories, equipment, and personnel
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  Speaker 1: assembled during the war to produce the atomic the main
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  Speaker 1: focus up until nineteen forty five. After nineteen forty five,
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  Speaker 1: attention shifted to harnessing the energy in a controlled fashion
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  Speaker 1: for naval propulsion and for making electricity, and eventually to
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  Speaker 1: the technological evolution of reliable nuclear power plants. Additionally, the
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  Speaker 1: AEC was largely the starting point to the various human
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  Speaker 1: radiation experiments, which were tests completed to see the effects
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  Speaker 1: of radiation on the human body. Most often American citizens
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  Speaker 1: who had checked into hospitals for a variety of ailments
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  Speaker 1: were secretly injected without their knowledge, with various amounts of plutonium,
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  Speaker 1: a highly radioactive element that was synthetically produced at UC
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  Speaker 1: Berkeley in California by placing uranium in a particle accelerator
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  Speaker 1: and causing them to absorb neutrons. These experiments included directly
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  Speaker 1: injecting plutonium and other radioactive elements to mostly terminal patients
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  Speaker 1: without their consent, feeding radioactive traces to children, enlisting doctors
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  Speaker 1: to administer radioactive iron to impoverish pregnant women, exposing US
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  Speaker 1: soldiers and prisoners to high levels of radiation, irradiating the
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  Speaker 1: testicles of prisoners, which caused severe birth defects, is from
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  Speaker 1: graveyards to test them for radiation without the consent of
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  Speaker 1: the families of the and more. These projects obviously raised
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  Speaker 1: concerns and questions by victims and health officials about the
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  Speaker 1: use of sick patients for purposes that aren't beneficial to them,
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  Speaker 1: the role of national security, exposure to radioactive conditions, and
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  Speaker 1: the use of secrecy to protect the government from liability.
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  Speaker 1: Two notable victims of these experiments and whistleblowers were women
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  Speaker 1: named Karen Silkwood and Dorothy Laggeretta, two of many that
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  Speaker 1: were the first to sound the alarm, and two who
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  Speaker 1: attempted to speak to the public about this issue of
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  Speaker 1: experimentation and worker exposure, citing poor work conditions and significant
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  Speaker 1: damage to one's physical health. However, both of these women
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  Speaker 1: were extremely mysterious that are still unsolved or officially uninvestigated
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  Speaker 1: by the US government to this very day. As always everybody,
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  Speaker 1: all parties are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a
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  Speaker 1: court of law. All the opinions presented on today's show
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  Speaker 1: are solely mind Colin Brown, the host and producer of
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  Speaker 1: The Conspiracy Files, this is a very important one. But
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  Speaker 1: to see the evidence and the data and the facts
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  Speaker 1: that we use to create this story, you can take
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  Speaker 1: a look at the resources document that is posted in
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  Speaker 1: the description of the show, and there you can read
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  Speaker 1: about all this and you can make up your own
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  Speaker 1: mind about what really happened here. And Yeah, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: planning on going anywhere or doing anything to myself, so
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  Speaker 1: I just want to state that once again, but without
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  Speaker 1: further ado, let's get into this. My name is Colin Brown,
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  Speaker 1: and welcome to the Conspiracy Files. What an introduction talking
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  Speaker 1: about experimenting feeding nuclear materials to children, exooming core from
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  Speaker 1: graveyards without consent, and running tests on the bodies of
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  Speaker 1: the dead, giving these radiated particles or however you'd state
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  Speaker 1: that injecting. I believe the pregnant women from poor, lower
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  Speaker 1: class neighborhoods with these nuclear radioactive materials, all done in secret,
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  Speaker 1: once again by the US government. So if anyone ever
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  Speaker 1: tells you that the US government wouldn't lie to you
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  Speaker 1: and that you should fully trust one hundred percent what
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  Speaker 1: the government tells you, I mean, there are a million
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  Speaker 1: different things that you could point to as an example,
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  Speaker 1: forty two, you know, like people want to skip my
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  Speaker 1: little intro. But I like talking to you guys. I
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  Speaker 1: like giving you my thoughts. But let's get into it first.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about victim number one. Karen Silkwood
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  Speaker 1: Karen Gay Silkwood was born in Longview, Texas. She had
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  Speaker 1: two sisters, Linda and Rosemary, and attended Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty five, she married William Meadows, an oil
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  Speaker 1: pipeline worker, with whom she had three children. After the
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  Speaker 1: couple's bankruptcy due to William's overspending and his refusal to
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  Speaker 1: end an affair he was having, Karen left him in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two and relocated to Oklahoma City. Shortly afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: she was hired at the Kerr McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication
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  Speaker 1: Site plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, where she joined the local
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  Speaker 1: Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union and participated in. After
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  Speaker 1: the strikes eventually ended, she was elected to the union's
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  Speaker 1: bargaining committee and was the first woman to have these duties. There,
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  Speaker 1: she was assigned to health and safety issues and then
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  Speaker 1: determined that there were numerous violations of health regulations, including
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  Speaker 1: the exposure of workers to contamination, faulty respiratory equipment, the
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  Speaker 1: improper storage of samples, and she additionally believed that the
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  Speaker 1: lack of sufficient shower facilities could increase the risk of
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  Speaker 1: employee contamination. The union said that the quote Kerr McGee
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  Speaker 1: plant had manufactured faulty fuel rods, falsified product inspection records,
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  Speaker 1: and risked employee safety end quote. During the summer of
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, Karen Silkwood testified about that information I
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  Speaker 1: just presented to you to the Atomic Energy Commission or AEC,
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  Speaker 1: about having been contaminated, alleging that safety standards had been
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  Speaker 1: relaxed because of an increase in nuclear production. On November fifth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, Karen performed a routine self inspection that
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  Speaker 1: she owned almost four hundred times the legal limit for
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  Speaker 1: plutonium contamination. She was then decontaminated at the plant and
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  Speaker 1: sent home with a testing kit to collect urine and
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  Speaker 1: feces for further analysis. Although there was plutonium on the
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  Speaker 1: inner portions of the gloves she had been using, the
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  Speaker 1: gloves did not have any holes, and this suggests that
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  Speaker 1: the contamination had come from not inside the glove box,
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  Speaker 1: but from another source. The next morning, as Karen left
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  Speaker 1: for a union negotiation meeting, she again tested positive for plutonium,
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  Speaker 1: although she had only performed paperwork duties that morning. She
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  Speaker 1: was then given a more intensive decontamination. On November seventh,
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  Speaker 1: Karen Silkwood was found to be dangerously contaminated as she
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  Speaker 1: entered the plant, and they found that she was even
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  Speaker 1: expelling contaminated air from her lungs. A physics team accompanied
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  Speaker 1: her back home and found plutonium traces on several surfaces,
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  Speaker 1: including the bathroom and the refrigerator. The house was then
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  Speaker 1: stripped and decontaminated, and some of her property was destroyed. Additionally,
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  Speaker 1: her boyfriend Drew Stevens and her roommate Dusty Ellis were
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  Speaker 1: then sent to Los Alamos National Laboratory for in depth
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  Speaker 1: testing to determine the extent of the contamination in their bodies.
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  Speaker 1: So how did Karen become that contaminated in a three
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  Speaker 1: day period from November fifth through seventh. I mean she
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  Speaker 1: was literally breathing out contaminated materials. It was all over
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  Speaker 1: and inside of her body, It was all over her home.
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  Speaker 1: She clearly had had something extremely horrific happened to her
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  Speaker 1: that she hadn't even noticed. She did say that she
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  Speaker 1: spilled her urine test sample the morning of November seventh,
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  Speaker 1: which may have contributed to the test, and this also
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  Speaker 1: correlated with how her levels of contamination at home were
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  Speaker 1: extremely high, while samples taken in fresh jars at the
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  Speaker 1: plant and los alamos showed much lower contamination. Karen, though
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  Speaker 1: claimed she had been contaminated obviously at the plan itself,
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  Speaker 1: but Kermagee's management said that Karen had contaminated herself in
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  Speaker 1: order to harm the company's reputation. But according to Richard
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  Speaker 1: Rashke's book The King of Karen Silkwood, security at that
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  Speaker 1: plant was so unbelievably lax that workers could easily smuggle
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  Speaker 1: out finished plutonium pellets. Author Rashke also stated that the
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  Speaker 1: soluble type of plutonium found in Karen Silkwood's body came
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  Speaker 1: from a production area that she had not accessed on
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  Speaker 1: record for four months. These pellets were eventually put into
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  Speaker 1: the vault of the facility. Now public suspicion resulted in
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  Speaker 1: a federal investigation of plant security and safety, and NPR
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  Speaker 1: reported that this investigation had found that twenty to thirty
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  Speaker 1: kilograms of plutonium had been misplaced at the plant. It
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  Speaker 1: had gone missing. There was missing plutonium. That's horrific and terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, Kermacgee closed its nuclear fuel plants in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy five. Addition, only the Department of Energy reported the
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  Speaker 1: Cimarron plant as decontaminated and decommissioned in nineteen ninety four.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy four, Karen Silkwood decided she would do
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  Speaker 1: something big. She decided she was going to go public
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  Speaker 1: with the evidence she had collected and the assembled documentation
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  Speaker 1: that would back up her claims, including company papers alleging
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  Speaker 1: that she had been contaminated at the plant. She contacted
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  Speaker 1: David Burnham, a New York Times journalist who was interested
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  Speaker 1: in helping her tell her story. On November thirteenth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy four, Karen Silkwood left a union meeting at the
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  Speaker 1: Hub Cafe in Crescent, Oklahoma, got into her Honda Civic
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  Speaker 1: and headed to Oklahoma City, about thirty miles away, to
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  Speaker 1: meet with Burnham, the reporter, and Steve Woda, an official
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  Speaker 1: of her union's national office. There is someone who went
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  Speaker 1: on record later and said that that day Karen Silkwood
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  Speaker 1: did indeed have a binder and a packet of documentation
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  Speaker 1: with her that she was planning to give to someone,
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  Speaker 1: but she never made it to the Meetinglater on, Karen
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  Speaker 1: Silkwood's body was found in her car, which had run
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  Speaker 1: off the road and struck a culvert on the east
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  Speaker 1: side of State Highway seventy four point eleven miles south
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  Speaker 1: of the intersection with West Industrial Road. She was pronounced
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  Speaker 1: dead at the scene. The documents and binder that she
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  Speaker 1: was taking to the reporter in Oklahoma City were nowhere
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  Speaker 1: to be found at the scene of the accident. Additionally,
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  Speaker 1: the state trooper at the scene remembers that he found
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  Speaker 1: one or two tablets of the sedative methaqualone quelude in
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  Speaker 1: her car. The trooper also reported that he found cannabis.
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  Speaker 1: The police report, however, said that Karen had fallen asleep
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  Speaker 1: at the wheel. The coroner, upon examination of Karen's body,
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  Speaker 1: found point three five milligrams of methaquaylon per one hundred
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  Speaker 1: milli liters of blood at the time of her death,
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  Speaker 1: almost twice the recommended dosage for inducing drowsiness. But before
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  Speaker 1: this was even determined, the officer filling out the report
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  Speaker 1: claimed that Karen had been sleepy, drinking and was un
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  Speaker 1: under the influence of drugs. But none of the official
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  Speaker 1: results from analysis had been released yet, So how did
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  Speaker 1: he know this? I mean he had come across her
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  Speaker 1: and Karen was already dead. No one though at the
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma Highway Patrol, ever, challenged that initial report, and the
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  Speaker 1: officer claimed that he couldn't recall who had told him
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  Speaker 1: that she had been drinking at the hub and who
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  Speaker 1: had told him that she had been taking sleeping pills
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  Speaker 1: prior to her accident. Some journalists thought that Karen Silkwood's
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  Speaker 1: car was rammed from behind by another vehicle with the
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  Speaker 1: intent to cause a crash that would result in her death.
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  Speaker 1: Skid marks from her car were present on the road,
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  Speaker 1: suggesting that she was trying to get back onto the
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  Speaker 1: road after being pushed from behind. Investigators also noted damage
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  Speaker 1: on the rear of Karen Silkwood's vehicle that had not
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  Speaker 1: been present before the crash, according to her friends and family.
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  Speaker 1: With the crash being a front end collision, this did
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  Speaker 1: not explain the visible rear damage to her vehicle. A
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  Speaker 1: microscopic examination of the rear of Karen Silkwood's car showed
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  Speaker 1: paint chips that could have only come from a rear
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  Speaker 1: impact by another vehicle. Karen's family went on the record
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  Speaker 1: later and stated that she had never had a prior
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  Speaker 1: collision with her Civic and since it had been purchased
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  Speaker 1: brand new, there was never a claim on it. This
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  Speaker 1: car had never been involved in an accident, and yet
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  Speaker 1: there was evidence not only collected by investigators, but also
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  Speaker 1: seen visibly by individuals who looked at the car that
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  Speaker 1: pointed to the fact that another car had struck it
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  Speaker 1: from behind. Karen's relatives also confirmed that she had had
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  Speaker 1: the missing documents with her at the time that she
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  Speaker 1: was in that vehicle. She had been heading to that meeting,
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  Speaker 1: and those documents and everything with it had gone missing. Additionally,
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  Speaker 1: Karen's family said that she had received several threatening, anonymous
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  Speaker 1: telephone calls shortly before her death. Yet speculation about foul
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  Speaker 1: play has never been substantiated, according to authorities. Because of
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  Speaker 1: concerns about contamination, the Atomic Energy Commission and the State
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  Speaker 1: Medical Examiner requested a thorough analysis of Karen's body. According
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  Speaker 1: to author Richard Rashke, of of Karen Silkwood as the
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  Speaker 1: investigation carried on, the police, the FBI, the kermcgee corporation,
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  Speaker 1: and even the aec or Atomic Energy Commission would label
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  Speaker 1: her as emotionally disturbed, sexually promiscuous, and a drug addict.
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  Speaker 1: After her death, Karen Silkwood's father and her own children
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  Speaker 1: filed a lawsuit against kermcgee for negligence on behalf of
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  Speaker 1: her estate in nineteen seventy nine. The main point was
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  Speaker 1: that her autopsy proved that she had been contaminated at
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  Speaker 1: the plant, and they claimed they had a series of
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  Speaker 1: witnesses who were able to testify who were all former
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  Speaker 1: employees of the facility. Kermcgee eventually settled out of court
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  Speaker 1: and awarded one point three eight million dollars to the
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  Speaker 1: Silkwood family, but they never admitted liability. Additionally, according to
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  Speaker 1: author Richard Rashke, investigators who looked into Karen's death and
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  Speaker 1: the plant operations received constant death threats. Anonymous death threats
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  Speaker 1: that were looking into Karen's death and the things that
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  Speaker 1: went wrong at this nuclear facility were being threatened, Their
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  Speaker 1: lives were being threatened. Additionally, one of the investigators disappeared
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  Speaker 1: under mysterious circumstances, and a second one died by self
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  Speaker 1: deletion shortly before she was set to testify against the
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  Speaker 1: Kermagee plant about the alleged happenings, the missing plutonium, all
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  Speaker 1: the contamination, and the workers that were being exposed to
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  Speaker 1: this radiation. An investigator mysteriously disappears, the whistleblower dies in
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  Speaker 1: a mysterious accident with all this evidence that shows that
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  Speaker 1: it was more than likely a and another investigator self
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  Speaker 1: deletes before she's going to testify, right before she's going
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  Speaker 1: to testify about what was happening at the plant and
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  Speaker 1: what her investigation had uncovered. Richard Rashki also went on
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  Speaker 1: to say that the Silkwood family's legal team reported that
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  Speaker 1: they had been followed, threatened with violence, and even physically
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  Speaker 1: assaulted by unnamed assailants. Author Rashki also suggested that the
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  Speaker 1: twenty kilograms were forty four pounds of plutonium that went
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  Speaker 1: missing from the plant had been stolen by a quote
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  Speaker 1: secret underground plutonium smuggling ring end quote, in which many
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  Speaker 1: government agencies, including the US government and international intelligence agencies
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  Speaker 1: like the CIA, Britain's MI five, the Israeli Massad, and
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  Speaker 1: a quote shadowy group of Iranians end quote were involved
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  Speaker 1: in Rashke's book says that the US had concealed many
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  Speaker 1: of the details surrounding Karen Silkwood's death and was thus
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  Speaker 1: allegedly involved with her own. How bizarre is that there's
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  Speaker 1: allegedly an underground, secret plutonium smuggling ring. There's documented forty
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  Speaker 1: four pounds of plutonium, highly radioactive material that you can
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  Speaker 1: use to create weapons of mass destruction, very very highly
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  Speaker 1: sensitive materials that should not be in the wrong person's hands.
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  Speaker 1: Forty four pounds of those materials go missing. A worker
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  Speaker 1: notices all of this. She is radiated and contaminated herself.
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  Speaker 1: She's exposed to all this stuff that she doesn't know about.
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  Speaker 1: She's breathing out these materials. Karen Silkwood gathers up all
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  Speaker 1: this information company papers, explosive stuff. She says she's going
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  Speaker 1: to meet with a reporter because she wants people to
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  Speaker 1: know what was happening and what she uncovered at the facility,
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  Speaker 1: and on the way to that meeting, she dies. Her
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  Speaker 1: materials and evidence disappear. There are investigators on her case
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  Speaker 1: that disappear or self delete. There are death threats that
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  Speaker 1: are called into Karen before she dies. Her family receives threats,
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  Speaker 1: the family's legal team receives threats. They're physically assaulted by
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  Speaker 1: unnamed assailants. There's a lot of absolutely horrific that's going
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  Speaker 1: on in Karen's case, and it all links back to
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  Speaker 1: intelligence agencies and the government smuggling this plutonium out from
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  Speaker 1: an American facility. And there's more evidence to that that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about a little bit, but I
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  Speaker 1: want to keep that in your minds that we're not
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  Speaker 1: saying that you know specifically one person took Karen out.
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  Speaker 1: There have been ties that have been stated, and especially
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  Speaker 1: in that book by Rashkid. It's an amazing book and
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  Speaker 1: amazing read. If you want to dig into it, The
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  Speaker 1: King of Karen Silkwood, you will read that book and think,
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  Speaker 1: holy this was not only covered up, but this is
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  Speaker 1: deeply insidious. These materials were essentially being smuggled out and
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  Speaker 1: placed into the wrong hands. But Karen Silkwood wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: only woman who tried to raise the alarm about what
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  Speaker 1: was happening who ended up dead. We now have to
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  Speaker 1: talk about Dorothy Legoretta. Dorothy Legoretta was born on a
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  Speaker 1: chicken ranch in Kotadi around the year nineteen twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to her mother Ingborg Legoretta and her Basque father. She
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  Speaker 1: was class valedictorian at Petaluma High School in nineteen forty
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  Speaker 1: two and went on to the University of California, Berkeley
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  Speaker 1: to earn a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and nutrition, a
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  Speaker 1: master's in Early Childhood Education, a secondary teaching credential, a
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  Speaker 1: doctoral degree in Education Curriculum an Instruction, with a dissertation
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  Speaker 1: on language acquisition of Latino generation. Dorothy was most known
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  Speaker 1: for her book, though published in nineteen eighty five, The
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  Speaker 1: Guernica Generation, on Basque refugee children twenty thousand children evacuated
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  Speaker 1: from Spain after the German bombing of the Basque city
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  Speaker 1: of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War. While Dorothy was
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  Speaker 1: a teen in her undergraduate in Berkeley in nineteen forty four,
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  Speaker 1: she took on a job as a lab technician at
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  Speaker 1: the Supersecret Crocker Laboratory, where the wartime goal was to
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  Speaker 1: manufacture plutonium for the first nuclear bombs. And it should
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  Speaker 1: be noted this supersecret Crocker Lab is still in service
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  Speaker 1: and is still functioning today now. Dorothy Lagoretto was considered
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  Speaker 1: a low level employee on the top secret Manhattan Project
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen forty four to forty five. There in that facility,
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  Speaker 1: uranium and plutonium were made radioactive for their use in
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  Speaker 1: a atomic bombs. Some of the radioactive waste materials were
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  Speaker 1: fed to test animals and the dishes from which they
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: had eaten had to be destroyed. Dorothy spent around twenty
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: five hours a week smashing that glassware, with no protective
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: coverings or devices to monitor the radiation levels that she
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: was being exposed to. This radioactive glassware was then discarded
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: dumped into the San Francisco Bay. Dorothy went on afterwards
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: to hold many other positions in her career in academics
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and in social justice. She was an assistant professor of
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: education at Mills College and an adjunct professor of Basque
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Studies at the University of Nevada at Reno. She started
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: her social activism through the Catholic Worker and farm Labor Movement,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and she also collaborated in opening the Peter marn Neighborhood
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: House in West Oakland for the neighborhood Black families in
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties. She also served as a director of
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the West End Nursery, Oakland's first community controlled compensentory education project.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: She was a member of the United Farm Workers Movement,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the People's park Land Trust, and the Society for Values
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: in Higher Education. Obviously, Dorothy had an insane list of
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: credentials and an insane list of accomplishments that she accomplished
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: throughout her life. But there was a problem. Remember how
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: she was smashing that glassware. Well, Dorothy had been exposed
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: and what comes next was disturbing, to say the least. Now,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: one of Dorothy's ten children died of leukemia at the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: young age of just four years old. According to the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: two thousand and six book Health Risks from Exposure to
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: low levels of ionizing radiation br V one one, Phase
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: two leukemia was the first cancer to be linked with
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors and had the highest
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: relative risk of any cancer. Dorothy herself was also diagnosed
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: with a thyroid tumor, which she had to have removed.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Following her work at the Berkeley Lab. Thyroid was also
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: later found to be one of the most common cancers
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: for exposed patients, in addition to ovary, urinary and melanoma.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Both of these things led Dorothy to take action regarding
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: workers exposure at the various labs. Her work for atomic
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: radiation survivors started at the hearing of Committee on Labor
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and Human Resources Congress session regarding the Radiation Exposure Compensation
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Act of nineteen eighty one, where Dorothy stated that, quote
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: what we are finding in our preliminary surveys, which of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: course are not epidemiologically sound, is that about twenty percent
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: of the veterans who report problems also have reported genetic
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: defects in their children, such as organ defects or mental
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: retardation end quote. She claimed that Congress should hear about
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the children of downwind people, the children of atomic workers,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the children of uranium miners, and the children of civilian workers.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: These kids were developing extreme diseases at extremely young ages.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: These innocent kids were being forced not only to suffer
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: through some of the worst diseases in managable, but they
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: were dying at these young ages, and during the year
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, Dorothy began to write a book about
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: this method of human experimentation. She also went on to
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: found the National Association of Radiation Survivors or NARS in
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, in which she represented over one million
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: civilians and veterans exposed to ionizing radiation as a result
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: of development, production, testing, and cleanup of nuclear weapons. The
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: group stated that the survivors included three hundred thousand atomic
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: veterans who served at nuclear test sites in Japan, the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Marshall Islands, and in the US, particularly at the Nevada
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: test site, and there were over five thousand members on
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: paper of this group nationwide. Dorothy testified at a nineteen
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: eighty two hearing held by Senator Hatch in Salt Lake
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: City and said that downwinders had made few compensation gains
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: in six years. She also alleged that Congress needed to
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: look at the genetic effects that above ground radiation has
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and is having on children. Quote we're talking about cancer
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and other radiogenic diseases end quote. She went on to
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: say that many of the victims had ingested farm produce
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: that had been covered with radiation dust, and that because
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: they had canned their own food, they suffered from these
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: conditions like cancer year round. In nineteen eighty two, while
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: examining the papers of Joseph Hilton, the scientist in charge
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: of radiation experiments at the University of California, at the
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: library of the University of California at Berkeley, Dorothy came
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: across a nineteen fifty memo written to Shield's Warren, the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: then director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Biology
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and Medicine. This written memo advised that large primates chimpanzees,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: for example, should be substituted for humans in the planned
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: studies on radiation's cognitive effects, the very same program of
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: experimentation that doctor Sanger was to execute. The use of
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: humans in these radioation experiments, Hamilton wrote, might leave the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: aec open quote to considerable criticism end quote, since the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: experiments as proposed head quote, a little of the buchan
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Wald touch end quote. So that's someone associated with these
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: experiments that they were secretly carrying out on humans. Comparing
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the experiments to those that were performed at Nazi concentration
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: camps a La Buchenwald. After Dorothy Lagaretta found that so
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: called buchan Wald Memo, Hamilton's papers were suddenly removed from
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: public access by the University of California administrators. Soon after this, though,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Dorothy filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Department of Energy and asked for all documents concerning experiments
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in which humans were intentionally exposed to radioactive materials through
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: injection or ingestion. Later that year, NARS receives a two
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: foot high carton of documents in response, documents that for
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the very first time exposed that the United States government
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: had been experimenting on humans, carrying out sick depraved radiation
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: experiments on unconsenting humans for years, and this all eventually
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: led to the creation of the nineteen eighty six Market Report.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty four, Dorothy attended a radiation Survivor's conference
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: in San Francisco in which health physicists discussed the problems
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: of lab workers at government nuclear facilities. The scientists gave
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: a detailed overview of current radiation research, citing studies of
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: prostate cancer, leukemia, and other diseases found in lab workers.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: When asked about the effects on women, this group claimed
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: they didn't know, and that there was very little research
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: done on women and the effects that radiation exposure had
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: on them. Dorothy was also successful in one case in
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Utah in which a federal judge, Bruce Jenkins, awarded two
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: point six million dollars to ten downwinder victims of the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Nevada test site blasts. Additionally, a controversial amendment to a
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five US Department of Energy appropriation bill took
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: the right of civilians to sue government contractors for radiation
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: damage and state courts away. In November nineteen eighty six,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Congressman Markey released a report related to these nuclear human
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: experiments called American Nuclear Guinea Pigs Three Decades of Radiation
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Experiments on US Citizens. The report documented thirty one human
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: radiation experiments that were performed on nearly seven hundred different
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: people over the course of a few decades. As a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: result of the report, President Bill Clinton in nineteen ninety
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: four created the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: tasked it with reviewing human radiation experiments that were conducted
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: between nineteen forty four and nineteen seventy four. The final report,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: released in nineteen ninety six, included recommendations on protection for
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: human subjects in future clinical trial. Dorothy Loretta's research into
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: the scope of illnesses that had been caused by man
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: made radiation led the City of Berkeley to award her
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the Peace Prize in nineteen eighty seven. She suggested that
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: any plan to award compensation for radiation illnesses should be
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: based on a nineteen eighty seven Radiation Effects Research Foundation
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: cancer estimate to calculate the assigned risk of contracting a
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: specific cancer after a specific exposure to a specific level
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: or type of radiation. Additionally, Dorothy alleged that she continued
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: to learn of radiation tests done years ago on civilians
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: on which no information has ever been made public by
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the US government, and that in particular, the Pharris doctrine
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: prevented servicemen injured in the line of duty from suing
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the government. This doctrine was what kept over two hundred
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: and fifty thousand US soldiers who had been exposed to
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: atomic bomb tests in radiation in Nevada and the South
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Pacific from ever being compensated for the cancers and degenerative
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: diseases that they developed later in life. Due to their
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: work on these secret nuclear projects. In nineteen eighty seven,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: at an Oakland news conference, the widows of victims of
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: radiation exposure alleged that the University of California lobbyists were
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: responsible for the Warner Amendment, which prevented civilian victims of
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: radiation exposure from filing wrongful death and injury lawsuits. So
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I know that there's a lot of words in terminology here,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: but Dorothy was a key pioneer in exposing not only
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: these tests that were secretly done against US citizens where
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: they were being injected or fed radioactive materials human guinea pigs,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: as it was referred to by that report, but Dorothy
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: was also key in exposing the fact that the government
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: had snuck all this terminology into doctrines and amendments and
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: legal documents that it basically prevented hundreds of thousands, if
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: not millions, of former government employees, soldiers, volunteers, anyone associated
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: with the government that the government had exposed to radiation
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: from filing wrongful death lawsuits or seeking payments from the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: government for diseases that they had developed from things that
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the government had done to them. If you're the government,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you're going to hate this woman she's helping all these
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: other individuals come out and you know publicly state my
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: husband worked for this department and was exposed to this
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: level of radiation. He developed cancer. It cost our family
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: eighty thousand dollars and he died. And now I'm in
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: medical debt. And this is all because of the US government. Obviously,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the US government isn't going to want people knowing all
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: of this. Dorothy herself claimed that quote you see or
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the University of California simply wanted to avoid the disclosures
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: which trial of these widow's claims would reveal about university
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: negligence in the nuclear weapons testing program end quot. However,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: everything would soon change for Dorothy. On November one, nineteen
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: eighty eight, Dorothy was when her car ran off US
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: one oh one near Helsberg and crashed into a tree. Obviously,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: this immediately draws a parallel to the death what I
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: would call of Karen Silkwood, which it occurred a little
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: more than ten years prior. Karen Silkwood was trying to
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: be a nuclear whistleblower and she was essentially driven off
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the road by a mysterious car and she crashed and
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: died and the documents she was going to expose were missing,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and she was on the way to meet with the reporter.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Then you have Dorothy running off the road, crashing into
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: a tree, and dying again in a car. It's like
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: comical how similar these things are and how they wanted
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: to come off as accidents. I mean, they executed Dorothy,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, in the exact same way that they
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: executed Karen. It's really strange. Now, it's very similar circumstances
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: to Karen's death Dorothy's death, and when investigators officers actually
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: approached Dorothy's vehicle and analyzed what was in the car,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: they noted that Dorothy's briefcase was missing from her vehicle
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: when she was found. However, somebody had written down the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: briefcase as being found on the accident report. The tow
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: truck driver said that the solid aluminum briefcase had been
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: thrown away because it was badly damaged. Though obviously this
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: was completely illegal and against the law to just throw
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: away a victim's possessions. But what was in the briefcase.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: There couldn't have been anything too crazy inside of Dorothy's briefcase.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Could there have been? Well, as it turned out. Dorothy's
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: briefcase contained a file printed documents that she called hot dogs,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: formerly top secret government documents that she had culled through
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: government papers obtained through a class action lawsuit brought by
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: veterans who had been intentionally exposed to atomic blasts and
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: radiation while in the serve. Well, there was very little
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: information publicly available regarding the crash that Dorothy had been
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: involved in. It was, like I said before, strangely reminiscent
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: to the death of the other anti nuclear activist, Karen Silkwood.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Both women, at the time of their deaths had been
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: in possession of top secret government documentation regarding radiation exposure
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: to the workers and were planning to publish the information
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: in the very near future. And both briefcases and both
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: bundles of documentation had gone missing from the scene of
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the accidents and were never seen again. So could the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: wrong person have caught wind of their intentions and the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: choice had been made to silence the both of them?
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Why would the government want these two women dead? Was
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: it worth the risk? Well, the truth is that several
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: individuals were following this untold secret that the government was
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: using uniformed human beings as guinea pigs test subjects for
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: their radiation research, and Karen Silkwood and Dorothy Lauretta were
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: just the first of many to really speak out about
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: these issues. It all started as early as nineteen seventy one,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: according to author and radiation expert Jeffrey c when The
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Washington Post revealed that a research team at the University
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: of Cincinnati under the leadership of doctor Eugene Sanger, had
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: been radiating quote mentally enfeebled end quote patients, which consisted
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: of mostly poor and black people, at dosage rates that
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: were known by the people carrying out these experiments to
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: have harmful effects. The aim of this research by the
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Department of Defense was to discover whether and under what
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: conditions soldiers on an atomic battlefield would be cognitively impaired.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: People alleged that this was obviously deeply unethical, but once
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: a review panel was established at the university, they claimed
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: that this was technically ethical due to the fact that
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: they had allegedly obtained the participant's consent and thus the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: experiments had continued. This was questionable still, however, because these
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: patients were explicitly chosen for their quote, low education level,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: low functioning intelligence and strong evidence that showed they had
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: cerebral organic deficit end quote. Researchers actually claimed they actually
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: claimed that these individuals that were being secretly experimented on
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: by receiving harmful doses of radiation. These researchers claimed that
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: these individuals would benefit from the exposure despite it obviously
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: being over these standard quote therapeutic dose, and that these
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: things were not intended to have a therapeutic effect. They
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: were actually testing radiation levels on these individuals and additionally
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: saying or the guy running these experiments in effect, he
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: came out and stated that eight of the patient's deaths
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: could possibly have been attributed to the treatments. In nineteen
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: seventy two, the research team quietly ended their human experiments
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: when evidence of the harmful effects of those experiments suddenly
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: became apparent. No one, though, had bothered to reopen this
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: case for public scrutiny despite it being reviewed. Although it
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: was reviewed very hastily by the American College of Radiology,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: no attempt had ever been made to monitor the remaining
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: survivors of the treatments to monitor their health or long
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: lasting effects. They just basically used these people as human
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: guinea pigs and then cut them loose and never helped
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: them out with anything that they had done to their
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: bodies and minds. And these radiation experiments continued to not
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: be mentioned in hearings on human experimentation or in the media.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy five, Karen Silkwood was going public with
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: information she had gathered that explicitly would show that she
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: had been exposed to high degrees of radiation at the
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: plant she worked at. Then she ended up dead. In
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, a newsletter in Washington, DC revealed a
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: disturbing experiment carried out in San Francisco, Chicago, and New
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: York as a part of the man Hattan Project that
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: quote involved the injection of relatively massive quantities of bomb
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: grade plutonium into the veins of eighteen men, women, and
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: children end quote. The article implied the experiment was an
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: isolated historical case and concluded that quote whether injecting the
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: key ingredient of the atomic bomb into unsuspecting patients can
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: be equated with Nazi wartime experiments is a matter which
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: is considered moot end quote. They basically stated some people
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: could compare these experiments to Nazi human experiments. They were
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: so offensive and secretive and disgusting that parallels could be
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: drawn to the worst regime of all time. But eh,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: who cares. In nineteen eighty one, a man named Dwayne Sexton,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: who was irradiated as a child as a part of
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: NASA sponsored research aimed at discovering the potential effects of
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: radiation exposure on astronauts, gained fleeting attention when his mother,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the mother of the child, linked the death of her
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: son to those radiation experiments. Mother Jones, a publication, ran
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: a cover story on the Sexton case at the time,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: basically speaking with the mother of this child who had
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: she claimed died due to the fact that he had
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: been tested on with these radioactive materials as a kid.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Al Gore, Yes, the same al Gore that you know,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: followed up with hearings on the oak Ridge Total body
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: irradiation program that was also ran during this time. But
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: neither that article in Mother Jones nor the hearings linked
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the Sexton case with the Sanger experiments that we talked
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: about before, or with the broader program of human experimentation
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: with radiation that had been carried out at the time. Essentially,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the public was led to believe, through this publication and
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: these hearings that these were isolated experiments that had only
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: been carried out on a few individuals. They were trying
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: to downplay this as much as possible, and continuing on
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: in the early nineteen eighties, a network of active visc researchers,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: including author Jeffrey S started to compile a full and
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: extensive record of United States radiation experiments that had been
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: carried out on humans, and this is where Dorothy entered
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: the equation. In Cincinnati, Ohio, doctor David Egelman of the
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Greater Cincinnati Occupational Health Center and Jeffrey C investigated experiments
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: that had been conducted on nuclear workers and followed the
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: trail of the Sanger experiments. At the time, Jeffrey was
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: employed as a health consultant by the Oil, Chemical and
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Atomic Workers Union and the Frenade Atomic Trades and Labor Council.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: The unions were concerned about the intentional radioactive contamination of
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: worker's skin as a means of testing external cleansing agents,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: and about the continuing use of workers as experimental subjects
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: in the development of chilation drugs to treat internal exposure
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: to radioactive heavy materials. Now that doctor doctor Egelman and
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey C. Through this research, discovered that the AEC Atomic
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Energy Commission and the Department of Energy had secretly contracted
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: with local hospitals and coroners for the collection of fluid
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: and tissue samples, surgically removed organs and autopsy specimens, and
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: in some cases they had been given the possession of
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: entire cadavers dead bodies of atomic workers for research and
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: experimentation and study. Some of these specimens were being taken
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: by the Atomic Energy Commission and Department of Energy, tested
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: on and experimented on, and were then destroyed by the government,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: often without the knowledge or against the expressed wishes of
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: the workers and or their survivors and family members. Jeffrey
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: and doctor Egelman suspected that this body snatching program served
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: a dual purpose. It helped the government accumulate data for
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: military purposes, while at the same time it resulted in
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: the destruction of physical evidence that could support compensation claim
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: brought by those affected by the radiation. Additionally, doctor Egelman
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: and Jeffrey C. Were concerned, but doctor Sanger, the mad
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: scientist essentially behind the human radiation experiments, had become the
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: chief consultant and expert witness for the government in defending
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: itself and its contractors against liability suits. Meanwhile, in California,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: during this time, Dorothy had begun to write her book
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: and had come across that infamous Buchanwald memo. In Missouri,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Dot Troxel tried to document her own horrific experiments and
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: tried to demonstrate the bonds that united all experiment survivors.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty seven, while working at the Atomic Energy
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Commission's Kansas City plant run by Bendix, Dot Troxel had
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: been involved in a serious radiation accident. When the symptoms
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: of acute radiation syndrome began appearing in her own body,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: like hair loss, nausea, purpura, and hemorrhaging. She was sent
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: to the Lovelace Clinic in New Mexico, a clinic established
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: by the AEC or Atomic Energy Commission for developing treatments
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: for radiation injury. Because Doc Troxel was thought to be
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: near death when she was admitted, and presumably because she
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: had been exposed to a cobalt sixty calibration source that
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: allowed the dose to her organs to be precisely determined,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: The doctors at that Lovelace Medical facility did exploratory surgery
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: on her, probably to obtain tissue biopses from her internal organs.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: When she awoke from that disturbing surgery and asked what
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: had been done to her, the doctors said that they
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: could not tell her for national security reasons. So this
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: woman was alive, She was seeking help for the conditions
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: that had been forced upon her by her employers and
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: extension of the government. And what did they do. Did
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: they try to help her in a way, Yeah, but
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: they also performed unauthorized surgery, cut into her internal organs,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: attempted to obtain tissue samples from a living patient, and
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: when she asked what they had done to her, they
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: wouldn't tell her because of national security. However, dot Troxel
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: eventually suffered radiogenic cataracts in both of her eyes and
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: gave birth to a son with congenital diabetes, which clearly
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: showed that she had been affected by this radiation, and
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: she then founded Vote Victims and Veterans Opposed to Technological Experimentation.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: In Knoxville, Tennessee, Clifford T. Honecker and Jacqueline Kattrell were
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: investigating the human experimentation program at the Department of Energy's
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: nuclear complex at oak Ridge, they located and began to
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: analyze the papers of Stafford Warren, who had been medical
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: director of the Manhattan Project and who had subsequently directed
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: the oak Ridge medical program. Those papers of Warren's that
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: had been obtained included classified documents and medical legal files,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: which provided a clear picture of the origins of the
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: US government's human experimentation programs, as well as a clear
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: overview of the government's policy of the denying compensation to
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: radiation damage. Survivors. Honeker and Ktrell founded the Radiation Research Project,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: which later became the American Environmental Health Studies Project. By
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: the mid nineteen eighties, Jeffrey C. And the other network
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: of activists decided to go public with the information they
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: had gathered on the hidden and covered up patterns of
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: disturbing human experiments that the US government had carried out
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: against their own citizens, and gave public press conferences in Cincinnati, Knoxville,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Kansas City, and Berkeley. The Buchenwald Memo around that time
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: also went public and was released to the press, but
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: for some reason, no mainstream paper mentioned it. From nineteen
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: eighty five to nineteen eighty six, in contract talks, the
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Labor Council, representing workers at the Department of Energies Ferdinand
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Ohio Uranium Plant, demanded disclosure of all human studies involving
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: uranium and plutonium, as well as the disclosure of information
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: about toxic releases to the environment, the use of atomic
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: workers as experimental subjects, and that eerie body snatching program
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: where the government had essentially been stealing organs and cadavers
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: from victims of radiation experiments and radiation exposure. However, rather
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: than release this information to the Labor Council, Department of
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Energy officials contacted the afl CIO leadership and threatened to
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: close the entire plant, put hundreds thousands of people out
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: of jobs if labor did not honor its national security obligations.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Frank Martino, president of the International Chemical Workers Union, then
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: wrote to Paul Bernskey, the president of the AFLCIO Metal
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Trades Department, and called for an end to quote continued
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: efforts to represent the community. End quote a reference to
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: the council's attempt to attain information from the Department of
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Energy through collective bargaining. The unions then sadly backed off
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: on their demand for information and abruptly terminated Jeffrey C's employment.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: So Jeffrey essentially, along with all these other researchers, had
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: dug and interviewed and requested documents and uncovered these programs
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: of human experimentation that were performed by the US government.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: They had gone public with it. They demanded that the
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: government acknowledged what they had done to their own people
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: and acknowledged that they had tried to deny as many
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: of these compensation requests as physically possible. And what happened
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: to Jeffries C. Well, it seems that money and greed
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: won over and he was terminated and written off. Doctor Egelman,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey's partner, was suddenly instructed to stop all of his
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: radiation related work and investigations. But instead of stopping the work,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: doctor Egelman chose to resign. It's at this time when
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey C. And doctor Eggelman decided to give all their information,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: not to the government and not to anybody involved in
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: these worlds, but to the New York Times. But no
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: article appears in the New York Times, and the New
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: York Times never says anything. They're sitting on a massive
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: bank of explosive, disturbing information. There's a huge expose that
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: could be written about all this stuff, but they say nothing.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Then on April twenty sixth, nineteen eighty six, the number
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: three unit at the Chernobyl Nuclear Energy Station explodes and
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: melts down, and Jeffrey C and Dot Troxel hold a
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: press conference in Kansas City on May fifth, saying that
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the US criticism of Soviet secrecy on Chernobyl is highly hypocritical,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: and they called on the US government to release all
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the data that they're holding on to about their own
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: human experimentation programs. In that press release, they also attacked
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: the credibility of doctor Sanger, the mad scientist overseeing at
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: least one branch of the human experimentation, who had quickly
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: been hired to advise the US government on Chernobyl's impact
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: on US personnel station in Europe, and who had suddenly
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: become the media's authority, their poster boy on true Noble's
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: potential health effects. So this guy was out there talking
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: to the media about the dangers of what could happen
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: to people in Europe and how dangerous this whole Chernobyl
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: thing was when nobody knew at the time that this
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: guy had actually performed these disturbing human experiments on unwilling
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: and unwitting subjects on their home soil here in America.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: The press release also held the details regarding the US
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: experimentation program quote that has at various times included the
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: exposure of prisoners, mental patients, terminal cancer patients, and paid
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: volunteers to non therapeutic radiation doses end quote. They then
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: again showed that buchan Wald memo to the press, but
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: the press responds with complete silence. Cliff Honeker, Dorothy Lagaretta,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: and Jeffrey ce all had a close working relationship with
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: the House Subcommittee on Energy, Conservation and Power when it
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: had been under the chairmanship of Representingtive Richard Odinger of
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: New York. At the time, near the end of his tenure,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Richard Odinger had authorized a full scale staff investigation into
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: the Department of Energy's human experimentation programs. By nineteen eighty six,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: chairmanship of the subcommittee had passed to Edward Markey of Massachusetts,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: and they pressed the subcommittee to go public in their
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: hearings and release a report, but once again no one
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: responded in October, though they finally issued that report called
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: American Nuclear guinea Pigs three decades of Radiation Experiments on
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: US citizens. Edward Markey then simultaneously issued a press release
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: that stated that quote the purpose of the several experiments
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: was actually to cause injury to the subjects. American citizens
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: thus became nuclear calibration devices for experimenters to run amok
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: end quote. This release, though, resulted in minor and often
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: misleading news stories in the press about exactly what all
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: this stuff meant. US downplayed all this and called the
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: participants volunteers, implying that all test subjects had volunteered for
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: the experiments and that they had had full knowledge that
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: they'd be subjected to radiation that could have then caused
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: adverse health effects. However, once again no one mentioned the
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Bukenwald memo. But it was at this point that the
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: student newspaper at the University of California, Berkeley finally brought
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: forth news. In a piece titled at Buchenwald and Berkeley,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: the editor in chief of the student newspaper, Howard Levigne,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: quoted from the November twenty eighth, nineteen fifty memo by
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: doctor Hamilton and incisively criticized reporting on the Markley report
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: done by the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Both papers, he wrote, quote, minimize the gross inhumanity of
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: these tests by downplaying their scope and ignoring the fact
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: that most of the experiments were conducted without the informed
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: consent demanded by the Nuremberg Protocols of nineteen forty six
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: to forty seven. In nineteen eighty seven, Eileen Wilson of
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: the Albuquerque Tribune started looking into the plutonium injection experiments
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: after coming across a footnote about them in a report
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: on animal experimentation done at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. And in
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, Dorothy Lagaratto was found dead in a
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: mysterious car crash, but other information regarding the police report
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: or anything else regarding Dorothy's death was nowhere to be found.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: A search on databases online shows next to no information
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: about Dorothy's death, only a few newspaper clippings and mentions
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: of that missing briefcase that held highly sensitive secret materials
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: that Dorothy was planning to disclose. On November nineteenth. Nineteen
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: eighty nine, the New York Times magazine published an article
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: by Cliff Honeker titled quote the Hidden Files. A subtitle reads, quote,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: In nineteen forty six, a nuclear accident one scientist and
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: injured several others. The government response to that tragedy established
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: a pattern of secrecy that still exists end. Quote, based
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: in large part on the files Honeker had discovered five
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: years earlier. The closely focused article did not deal with
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: the government's year's long human experimentation program and its origins.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety one, Sixty Minutes aired a segment on
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: the government's body snatching program. In his introduction to the
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: January thirteenth segment, Harry Reasoner said, quote, in the case
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: of the men and women who have worked in this
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: country's nuclear weapons industry, the government is apparently willing to
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: go to any lengths to defeat workers claims that they
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: were injured or by exposure to radiation, any lengths, including
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: falsifying records, concealing evidence, even trying to steal human remains. Quote. Oddly,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: according to the segment's producer, one of the most powerful
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: interviews with a courier who arranged for the shipment of
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: body parts to Los Alamos, and who was present at
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: a secret autopsy at which body parts were removed from
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: a dead body without the knowledge or consent of the
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: family wound up on the cutting room floor. They never
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: aired that interview, that explosive interview about someone who testified
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: about seeing body parts snatched and stolen, shipped to nuclear laboratories,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: and being president autopsies where dead bodies were gruesomely mutilated
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: at the government's behest and against the wishes of the
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: family members of the deceased. Meanwhile, at the same time,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Jackie Cattrell and Cliff Honiker were combing the hills of
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Tennessee trying to track down women who, while pregnant, had
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: been unwitting subjects in radioisotope ingestion studies decades earlier. Since
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: some of the initial recruitment for those experiments had been
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: placed in classified ads sections in newspapers in remote Appalachian towns,
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Jackie and Cliff tried repeatedly to get the same papers
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: to run articles describing the experiments, articles which asked the
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: women to come forward on a confidential basis. They tried
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: to persuade the Nashville Tennessee to run such articles because
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: one of the largest experiments involving more than eight hundred
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: pregnant women had taken place at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: At least one reporter, Carolyn Shoulders at the Tennesseean, proposed
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: articles about the experimentation program to her editors, but none
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: of these proposals were approved. In May of nineteen ninety two,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: dot Troxel announced that she would begin a hunger strike
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: in July, which she said would continue until her death
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: unless the government released all data on the experiments and
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: provided care for all survivors. She said that she preferred
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: death quote on her own terms end quote to a slow,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: quiet death preceded by the intensifying pains of her radiation
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: induced injuries, and she stated that she wanted to use
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: her hunger strike to help establish a union called IRIS
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: International Radiation Injury Survivors, but fatigued and under the influence
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: of Dot Troxel died in a tractor accident in late
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: May of that year. She left behind the text of
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: an intended final speech in which she asked to be
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: cremated so that quote the perpetrators of cruel and barbaric
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: experimentation end quote, will be denied quote the knowledge they seek.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: So basically, she was saying, please cremate my bodies. That
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: these sixth who've been experimenting on all these people and
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: chopping their bodies up, stealing their bodies and organs, can't
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: do the same to me in death. They can't revictimize
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: me again. In her writing, she also forgave all those
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: in the government, the public interest community, and the media
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: who continued to quote ignore our plight, for they know not.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: They were not on shipboard in the nuclear Pacific tests
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: or in the trenches in Nevada, nor are they with
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: the veterans in VA hospitals end quote. In mid November
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three, the Albuquerque Tribune published Eileen Wilson's three
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: part series The Plutonium Experiment. In late December of that year,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: a decade after Katrell and Honeker alerted the paper the story,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: the Tennessean finally published an article about the Vanderbilt Pregnant
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Women radiation experiment and its medical follow up study. And
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: after that, a woman named Emma Craft, who had never
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: known that she had been fed radioactive iron in the
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: nineteen forties read a detailed description of the nineteen fifty
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: eight death by cancer of an unnamed eleven year old
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: girl whom she recognized as her daughter. Emma Craft, along
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: with a handful of other women who had learned through
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: the Tennesseean that they had been experimental subjects, filed a
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: class action lawsuit against a long list of defendants, led
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: by Vanderbilt University. Acting as if the recent revelations were
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: news to him, John Harrington, the Secretary of Energy in
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: the Reagan administration and at the time vice chairman of
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: the California Republican Party, told the Associated Press that during
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: his tenure, quote, there had not been enough work done
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: to establish that there was a problem end quote. This
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: was reported without comment or correction. But what is this
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: that's all mean? I mean, you can clearly see that
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: there was a pattern of cover up. There was a
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: pattern of secrecy. There was a pattern in the media,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: a blackout, a refusal to cover these issues. Was that
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: because a directive had been handed down to the media
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: to ignore these stories, to not talk about them. If
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: it weren't for these investigators and journalists and researchers who
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: had been so devoted to the topic that they had
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: made enough noise that people had to start listening. Would
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: there have ever been any accurate reporting about all of this? Well,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: some of this has continued to the present day. In
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, the Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: Commission Whistleblower Protection Act S. Twenty eight ninety six would
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: override a legal technicality that has canceled due process protection
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: for government whistleblowers in existing nuclear safety law. This was
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: the amendment of the original nineteen seventy four law, which
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: made it illegal to discharge or otherwise retaliate against an
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: employee because employee or any person acting at an employee's request,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: engages in protected activity. Research consistently indicates that whistleblowers are
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: responsible for exposing and catching more fraud than audit departments,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: compliance departments, and law enforcement combined. I mean, with so
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: many of these things, it's the same old thing. Yeah,
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: we investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Why would any of these departments want to call themselves
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: out If they have a secret that's already been established
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: and well kept for so many decades, why would they
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: ever want to revisit that or drag that out into
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: the public eye. If they could just let sleeping dogs
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: lie and never wake up the beast, and just let
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: it fade away into obscurity and to the annals of history. Well.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: It also wasn't until nineteen ninety that the Radiation Exposure
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Compensation Act or RICA was passed by the government to
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: provide one time benefit payments to those who may have
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: developed cancer or other specified diseases after being exposed to
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: radiation from atomic weapons testing or uranium mining, milling, or transporting.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: RIKA benefits were available to the following groups. On site participants.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: They were given seventy five thousand dollars if they participated
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: on site in the atmospheric test of an atomic weapon
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: and developed one of the types of cancer specified in
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: the statute. Down Winders were given fifty thousand dollars. These
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: were persons who were present in one of the specified
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: areas near the Nevada test site during a period of
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: atmospheric atomic weapons testing and developed one of the types
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: of cancer specified in the statute. There were also uranium miners, millers,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: and ore transporters who were given one hundred thousand dollars.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: This money was awarded to those who worked in the
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: mining milling or transportation of uranium between nineteen forty two
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: and nineteen seventy one and developed one of the types
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: of diseases specified in the statute. But at the end
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: of all this were left with a sinking question, why
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: would something like this take so long to be put
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: into place? After thousands and thousands of people suffered at
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: the hands of the government, the government's disturbing human experimentation
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: programs feeding pregnant women radioactive materials, injecting people with radioactive materials,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: why would it take them so long not only to
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: award people with compensation, but to just formally acknowledge that
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: they had done these things. At a meeting before the
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Bun and associates mentioned
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: that when he was working with Dorothy, they often questioned
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: why there was a lack of accountability and an overall
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: pandemic of denial. Bunn was quoted as saying that quote,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: the reasons are many and complex, but he thought the
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: single biggest reason was the unwillingness to believe that so
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: many regular and extraordinary people, including so many physicians, nurses, scientists, technicians,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: and university people, would be involved to an enterprise devoted
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: to crimes of humanity end quote. He also went on
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: to say, quote most of us would like to believe
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: that this behavior was confined to Germany in the twelve
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: years between nineteen thirty three and nineteen forty five. But
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: I urge you to keep in mind a passage from
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Joseph Heller's novel Catch twenty two. The passage read as follows.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: In a fit of justified paranoia on the battlefield, the
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: protagonist Yossarian, starts screaming, they're trying to kill me. They're
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: trying to kill me, And as if to refute and
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: console him, his commanding officer replies, no, they're not, they're
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: trying to all of us. End quote. So that's in
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: actual reporting in relation to the government and the secret programs.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: That concept can be applied to so many things that
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: I've talked about here on this show. People always ask
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: if these groups are so large, whether it's Epstein's organization
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: or the Sheldon Organization, or any of these editor rings,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: or these groups that are dedicated to carrying out these
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: evil things, these crimes against humanity, If these groups are
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  Speaker 1: so large, why does no one ever speak up about them? Well,
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  Speaker 1: as you can see with the case like this, thirty
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  Speaker 1: forty fifty years passed between these experiments and the time
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  Speaker 1: that they were officially disclosed and talked about, and no
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  Speaker 1: one really said a thing. I mean, these are reputable people, doctors, scientists, nurses, researchers,
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  Speaker 1: and yet they were involved in these disturbing human experiments.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, Dorothy's death is
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  Speaker 1: still unexplained, as is Karen Silkwood's. These are the women
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  Speaker 1: that literally die trying to bring the truth to light,
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  Speaker 1: and their deaths are still accidents. Clearly, Karen Silkwood's death
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  Speaker 1: was not an accident with the paint chips on the
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  Speaker 1: back of her car, the damage to the back of
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  Speaker 1: her car. If you actually think that a whistle blower
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  Speaker 1: who's going to blow the whistle and on the way
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  Speaker 1: to blow the whistle dies is an accident, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to tell you. You need to wake up.
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  Speaker 1: Whistle Blowers do not die on the way to blow
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  Speaker 1: the whistle and have their research and their highly sensitive
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  Speaker 1: documents go missing from the scene of the accident and death.
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  Speaker 1: This happened with both Karen Silkwood and Dorothy Legoetta. They
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  Speaker 1: both died in mysterious car accidents in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: blowing whistles, and their briefcases or binders and documents containing
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  Speaker 1: highly sensitive information vanished from their vehicles both times. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: rest in peace to Karen and Dorothy. Horrible, horrible ways
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  Speaker 1: to go, but at least their efforts were not in
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  Speaker 1: vain and they eventually the government and these agencies admitted
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  Speaker 1: complicity in these experiments and paid people out. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think the payments were nearly enough fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: for developing a debilitating, life threatening disease due to negligence
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes willful negligence on the part of the US
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  Speaker 1: government and these rogue researchers and scientists and nurses and doctors.
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  Speaker 1: You have to keep in mind with all these stories,
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  Speaker 1: these are just the experiments that the government was comfortable
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  Speaker 1: talking about. These are just the experiments that the government
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  Speaker 1: was pressured into releasing information on. Who knows how many
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  Speaker 1: more experiments have been carried out over the years against
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  Speaker 1: the United States people that were never discussed, that were
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  Speaker 1: never disclosed, that never will be disclosed. Maybe all the
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  Speaker 1: people involved are already dead, Maybe the victims are dead.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the doctors are dead, Maybe the researchers are dead.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the officials are dead. They've been threatened into silence.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows. This is probably just a small portion of
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  Speaker 1: the entire pie chart showing the full breadth of these
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  Speaker 1: disturbing human experiments that have taken place in US history.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's not confined to radiation either. I mean
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  Speaker 1: there have been epideliological experiments done. There have been studies
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  Speaker 1: on diseases, people being injected with diseases, and I mean,
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  Speaker 1: look at Units seven thirty one in Japan. We practically
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  Speaker 1: purchased and handed immunity to these hardcore war criminals that
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  Speaker 1: we're experimenting on humans. And we let these people who
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  Speaker 1: butchered men, women, pregnant women, children, we let them go
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  Speaker 1: free in exchange for this information that they had gathered
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  Speaker 1: through these brutal human experiments. And according to the US government,
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  Speaker 1: you know, afterwards, we didn't learn anything from them. We
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  Speaker 1: essentially just let these complete psychopaths run free. But as always,
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