Tragically, the first person to commit suicide while live on television said her last words to the camera before she ended her life.
Tragically, the narrative takes us back to 1974 in Sarasota, Florida, where Christine Chubbuck worked as a newsreader for a small station.
This year also saw the resignation and subsequent replacement of Richard Nixon by Gerald Ford as president in the wake of the Watergate crisis; however, these events occurred just a day earlier, on July 15.
The talk program Suncoast Digest on WXLT-TV was airing to its modest viewership when Chubbuck shot herself with a handgun she had stashed in a bag of puppets behind her desk.
Reportedly feeling upbeat and excited to test out a new format for the show—beginning with a broadcast instead of an interview with a guest—the 29-year-old informed her colleagues of this on the morning of the incident.
