For years rumors speculated about how a woman committed suicide during a newscast. Many believed that such a thing could not be true. Unfortunately, this urban legend is true. In 1974, a news anchorwoman, Christine Chubbock, pulled a gun on herself and shot herself on live TV. Her co-workers believed she was playing a horrible prank, until they realized her body was unresponsive. The severity of her suicide had the tape yanked, and it was later returned to her family, never to be seen again.

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