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WFFF-TV signed on August 31, 1997. [3] Prior to the station's launch, the Champlain Valley was the last top-100 television market without a primary Fox affiliate; [4] CBS affiliate WCAX-TV aired Fox Sports and Fox Kids programming, while the network's full schedule was available on cable systems in most of Vermont via Foxnet; the extreme southern portion of the Champlain Valley (corresponding ...
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 ...
Raynella Dossett Leath, from Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, is a woman who was released in 2017 from a life sentence at the Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville for the 2003 murder of her husband David Leath. Prosecutors alleged that she shot her husband in the head, and then attempted to stage his murder as a suicide. The judge, in the third ...
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
Kathryn Johnston (June 26, 1914 – November 21, 2006) [1] was an elderly woman from Atlanta, Georgia who was killed by undercover police officers in her home on Neal Street in northwest Atlanta on November 21, 2006, where she had lived for 17 years. Three officers had entered her home in what was later described as a 'botched' drug raid.
IFC delayed broadcasting an episode of its satirical series Documentary Now! which involved two journalists who are killed on-camera as they track down a Mexican drug cartel leader. [64] Warner Bros. Records decided to pull a television commercial for Disturbed 's album Immortalized , as it depicted an incident similar to the killings.
Darnella Frazier (born March 23, 2003) is an American woman who recorded the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, posting her video on Facebook and Instagram.The video undermined the initial account of Floyd's death by the Minneapolis Police Department, [1] and served as evidence leading to criminal charges against four police officers.
Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. [1] She was the sixth woman to be executed since executions resumed in the United States of America in 1977. [ 2 ] Her final appeals and the last three months of her life were chronicled by filmmaker Liz Garbus in the documentary The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002).