A technical issue prevented her from airing the taped video of a local shooting that was supposed to serve as the program opener.
Next, the camera returned to Chubbuck as she delivered her haunting last lines from a screenplay she had prepared.
She informed us: “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in ‘blood and guts’, and in living colour, you are going to see another first – attempted suicide.”
Her last remarks were those. She leaned forward after placing her rifle in her right ear and pulling the trigger.
Vintage footage of Chubbuck from the 1970s, when she was hosting Suncoast Digest. (ABC 7) Archival footage from the 1970s showing Chubbuck at work on her program Suncoast Digest.
