Drinking The Cool Aid
Drinking The Cool Aid is a true crime podcast with two sisters, Megan and Hanna. We cover recent and cold cases, paranormal, unsolved mysteries, serial killers, disappearances, conspiracies, and pretty much all things spooky. We go in depth with our twisted stories and sprinkle in a little humor. "Tell your friends, tell your cats, ummm byyeeeee!"
Drinking The Cool Aid
Radium Girls // 195 // Part 4
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Megan and Hanna Hawkins
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Season 1
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Episode 195
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning beginning in 1917, while they were painting watches with self-luminous paint. This occurred at three factories in the United States: Orange, New Jersey, Ottawa, Illinois, and Waterbury Connecticut. The women were assured that the paint was harmless, but that wasn't true, and they ingested deadly amounts of radium.
Resources:
- Radium Girls: The Women Who Fought for Their Lives in a Killer Workplace | Britannica
- Smithsonian displays ore containing radium, United States Radium Corporation (1921) - Newspapers.com™
- https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/centennial-radium-forged-report/
- https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5559067/women-radium-victims-offer-selves-for/
- Radium Girls: Living Dead Women | Headlines & Heroes (loc.gov)
- In Her Footsteps: Radium Girls of Ottawa, IL - YouTube
- The Radium Girls:The Dark Story of America’s... by Moore, Kate (amazon.com)