Death Summary: Christine Chubbuck at the age of 29 shot herself in the head with a .38 revolver on live telvision in the middle of a newscast in Sarasota, Florida.

Just before pulling out the gun and firing it into her own head, she reported several news stories including a local restaurant shooting. The station tried to show footage from the restaurant story, but experienced technical difficulties. It was at that time when Chubbuck chillingly told the television audience: "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide."

She was taken to Sarasota Memorial Hospital and not pronounced dead for another 14 hours.

Come to find out, the station manager had recently cut one of her stories in order to cover a shoot out. He then told her to focus on blood and guts. That was probably the last time he made such a suggestion to one of his employees.

Who was Christine Chubbuck: Christine Chubbuck was a televsion news anchor in Sarasota, Florida who had battled depression for years before ultimately taking her own life on her own program.

Before the notorious on-air suicide, she was able to bring some good to the world. She volunteered at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, giving puppet shows to developmentally disabled children.

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