"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, exclusive coverage of an attempted suicide."
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January 1, 1970

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Who: Christine Chubbuck, 30-year-old anchorwoman who, on July 15, 1974, during technical difficulties during a broadcast on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida, said these words on-air before producing a revolver and shooting herself in the head (While she drew the gun on camera, the technicians quickly cut the video feed, but the gunshot could be clearly heard). She was pronounced dead in hospital fourteen hours later. Reported in Kristine Bertini, Understanding and Preventing Suicide: The Development