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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.
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]
Christine Chubbuck committed suicide by shooting herself in the head on live TV and the 1974 broadcast has become notable for many reasons.
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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 ...