A dark day in US television history – on the morning of 15 July 1974, news anchor Christine Chubbuck looked into the television cameras of WXLT Channel 40 and declared, “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts and in living colour, you are going to see another first – an attempted suicide.”
Disillusioned as her world continues to close in on her, Christine takes a dark and surprising turn.
Christine, always the smartest person in the room at a small town Florida news station, is relentless in her pursuit of an on-air position.
Chubbuck then pulled out a gun from underneath her desk, putting it to her head and pulling the trigger.