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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. She is the first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast.
Christine is a 2016 American independent [3] biographical psychological drama film [4] directed by Antonio Campos and written by Craig Shilowich. The film stars Rebecca Hall as Christine Chubbuck, a news reporter who was the first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast. [5]
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]
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Christine Chubbuck committed suicide by shooting herself in the head on live TV and the 1974 broadcast has become notable for many reasons.
Starfish (2016) – British drama film following a family who are thrown into turmoil when the husband contracts sepsis, based on a true story [169] Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (German: Vor der Morgenröte ) (2016) – German - Austrian biographical drama film charting the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan ...
There has been an audio only clip floating around that is allegedly from Christine Chubbuck's final broadcast on youtube. I thought it was a hoax, like the video that floated around years ago, until I actually started to listen to it. I think it's real. The voice sounds identical to Chubbuck's voice based on the few clips in the public domain.