Chritstine Chubbuck

Born August 24, 1944 in Hudson, Ohio, Christine Chubbuck was an American television news reporter. Chubbuck attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, for one year, majoring in theater arts, then attended Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, before earning a degree in broadcasting at Boston University in 1965. Chubbuck worked for WVIZ in Cleveland between 1966 and 1967. Also in 1967, Chubbuck attended a summer workshop in radio and television at New York University. That same year she worked at WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as an assistant producer for two local shows, "Women's World" and "Keys to the City." In 1968, Chubbuck left WQED to spend four years as a hospital computer operator and two years with a cable television firm in Sarasota, Florida. Later, while working for WXLT, Chubbuck was given "Suncoast Digest," a community affairs talk show. On the morning of July 15, 1974, Christine Chubbuck passed away during a live television broadcast.