A few months back, we published an article that centered around a curious and tragic figure in the history of American broadcasting: Christine Chubbuck, an on-air correspondent for a news station in Sarasota, Florida, who in 1974 shot herself on live television. In an odd coincidence, there were two movies about Chubbuck at Sundance this year, and we explored the ongoing search for the video of her death. It had long been unclear if such a tape exists, despite years of searching by the so-called "death hags" on Findadeath.com.
Yesterday, we got a call that confirms the tape's existence. While reporting the original story we had reached out to Mollie Nelson, the widow of the owner of Chubbuck's news station, who the death hags theorized had a copy. She called us back Tuesday afternoon to explain that she has the video — her late husband Robert Nelson had kept a copy of the tape all these years, though Mollie says he never told her why.
When he died, it stayed in her possession. But after the Sundance debut of the quasi-documentary Kate Plays Christine, in which a former news station employee suggests that Nelson might have the tape, people started contacting her asking to see it. The attempts made her uncomfortable, so she gave it to an unnamed "very large law firm" for safekeeping. She says has no plans to ever make it available and only held on to the tape to honor her husband's wishes. It seems, then, that the wait to see a tape nobody really needs to see continues.
http://www.vulture.com/2016/06/christine-chubbuck-suicide-video-exists.html
yeah I just torrented it, spooky shit
>>70610645
webm that shit, man
I'd be more interested in her sex tape really.
>>70610160
It aired live, so shouldn't there be lots of copies available?
>>70610749
millenial?
'74 people didn't just tape randomly the news of some local shit station
>>70610749
> implying anyone in 1974 was taping live local television
>>70610685
sure after you roll quints
>>70610783
>>70610788
Surely someone was DVRing it though.
give it to me
>>70610854
Gr8 point 2bh
>>70610160
She looks like a man in drag
Why didn't you save her, /tv/?
>>70610714
She killed herself because she was a virgin and couldn't find a man. She looks fine looking so she probably had insanely high standards.
>>70610749
Back before you were a sperm in your daddy's balls, taping something on tv required planning in advance. No one knew she was going to commit suicide on air and she didn't give a long speech announcing her intentions.
>>70611132
Apparently she had a few love interests, one died in a car accident and the other her parents didn't approve of because he was Jewish.
>>70611132
could you repeat that?
>>70611132
Yeah, I know the story. She was really sexy, too bad about the insanity.
>>70611132
>>70611201
>when a woman is depressed, she kills herself
>when a man is depressed, he kills a bunch of people and then himself
Explain this shit.
Damn, I've always wanted to see that video.
why didn't she just go out to dinner with a guy and then fuck him. what's so hard about losing your virginity when you're a woman??
>>70611963
She came from a well to do family and lived in Ohio...I imagine she was brought up with a strict moral code (this was the 50s and 60s)
>>70611132
Well that or she had some sort of psychological issues>>70611564
These are two different cases you moron
>>70611564
Not always. That's a pretty shitty generalization to make.
>>70611963
Nothing, she was just crazy.
Crazy bulimic Chad whore. Daily reminder that death is preferable to women than dating one of us.
>>70611382
>She was really sexy
the fuck no she wasn't, she wasn't a monster but by no stretch of the imagination was she sexy.
>>70611169
>parents didn't approve of because he was Jewish.
Good parents, saving their child from a fate worse than death
>>70612965
Looks good to me, a nice Jewish hairy chick. Too thin if anything.
>>70611110
dem brows tho
>>70613828
She plucked in >>70610160 :(
>>70611110
>saving a successful independent women
How?
>chad chaser who killed herself because chad wouldnt fuck her
This reminds me of that grizzly man tape that the faggot director destroyed because "no one should listen to this". Just a soft person deciding what the rest of us should be exposed to.
This sort of shit infuriates me, especially in this case. This lady shot herself on camera with the intention of having a bunch of people see it, covering up the tape literally goes against her wishes.
>>70611963
>women can't be insecure
>>70611963
>>70614360
did you seriously just call Werner fucking Herzog a soft faggot?
>>70614390
>>70614450
>not having multiple D's by the time you're 16
ladies your doing something wrong
>>70614360
>grizzly man zape
I don't remember the website but there's a very detailed timeline of what happened in that night. Also partial transcripts.
>>70610160
She didn't kill herself. The station manager shot her when he transformed into a werewolf.
>>70611564
Bullshit, when a woman is depressed/crazy she kills her kids and then herself. Men kill themselves and that's it.
>>70614476
Based on him talking about that tape, yes. It's not his decision to make, and only a soft egomaniac would make a call like that
>>70614627
say that to my face not online and see what happens
>>70614627
>>70614476
Actually I'm gonna have to backtrack, he went on to say that advising the owner to destroy the tape was stupid.
>>70611132
>She killed herself because she was a virgin and couldn't find a man
you mean CHAD
>>70614360
>>70610749
Why are there literally no recordings of MST3k K00 - K03 then?
>>70614718
Giving your v-card to anyone but a Chad equals loss of dignity and self respect. I can't blame her.
>>70611110
DOUBTLESS IS IT NOT SO
Was that intentional?
>>70615370
That aired when everyone had VCRs tho
>>70614360
first off he didn't destroy it, and don't you EVER talk shit about herzog again, okay?
>>70617325
I think that audio is kept in a safety deposit box by the ex-gf somewhere.
