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Christine Chubbuck [a] (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who worked for stations WTOG and WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida.. The first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast, Chubbuck shot herself in the head with a gun on July 15, 1974 during WXLT-TV's Suncoast Digest, after claiming that the network was about to present "an exclusive ...
The story of a 1970s TV reporter, who was the first person to commit suicide on live television, is taking Sundance by storm.
A few months back, we published an article that centered around a curious and tragic figure in the history of American broadcasting: Christine Chubbuck, an on-air correspondent for a news station ...
Christine Chubbuck: 15 July 1974: The 29-year-old American news anchor from Hudson, Ohio, killed herself on live television at the start of Suncoast Digest, a local newscast for WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida, after reading some of the area's breaking news headlines. Chubbuck was the first person to commit suicide on live television. [168] [169]
Network came only two years after the first on-screen suicide in television history, of television news reporter Christine Chubbuck in Sarasota, Florida. [7] The anchorwoman was suffering from depression and loneliness, was often emotionally distant from her co-workers, and shot herself on camera as stunned viewers watched on July 15, 1974.
Christine Chubbuck committed suicide by shooting herself in the head on live TV and the 1974 broadcast has become notable for many reasons.
In the 2016 biographical drama Christine, Hall played Christine Chubbuck, a real-life TV news reporter. Variety described her as "discomfitingly electric in the best role she's yet been offered". [26] In 2017, she portrayed Elizabeth Holloway Marston, a psychologist who inspired the character of Wonder Woman, in Professor Marston and the Wonder ...
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