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Christine Chubbuck
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Film & TV
Hudson, Ohio, USA
Christine Chubbuck (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who worked for stations WTOG and WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida. She was the first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast.
Known for
- Kate Plays Christine — Self (archive footage)2016
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1962
Discography
- Believe2004
- Christmas on My Mind2004
- Winter Tapestry2004
- Childhood2004
- Piano Stories2006
- Promise2009
- Childhood II2011
- The Wishing Well2011
- A Classic Christmas2012
- Souvenirs2014
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 9
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Christine
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- East Cleveland
- Place of death
- Sarasota
- Occupation
- presenter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Christine Chubbuck image.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1944-08-24
- date of death
- 1974-07-15
- manner of death
- Suicide
- name in native language
- Christine Chubbuck
- last words
- In keeping with the WXLT practice of presenting the most immediate and complete reports of local blood and guts news, TV 40 presents what is believed to be a television first. In living color, an exclusive coverage of an attempted suicide.
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