TV anchor Christine Chubbuck began her program on WXLT-TV by reading a speculative report of her impending suicide, in which she conjectured she would be declared dead eleven hours later. She placed a .38 revolver in her bag of puppets and put it beneath her desk.

During the first eight minutes of her program, Chubbuck covered three national news stories and then a local restaurant shooting from the day before.  When the film of the restaurant shooting had jammed and would not run, Christine Chubbuck shrugged it off and said:

"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 �?attempted suicide."

She drew out the revolver and shot herself.  The camerawoman thought it had been a staed prank, but ultimately realized that she was seeing a real suicide attempt.

The station quickly cut to an announcement.   Some television viewers called the police, but others called to ask if it was faked.

So sad.