00:02In Sarasota, Florida today, a 29-year-old talk show hostess shot herself in the head live on television.
00:09The woman, Christine Chubbuck, said,
00:11In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
00:15you're going to see another first, an attempted suicide.
00:18The word spread, like, through the grapevine.
00:21I mean, it wasn't tweeted or emailed, you know, it was hated.
00:24You see what happened on Channel 40 in the old-fashioned way, you know, person to person.
00:29If you're going to play this role, you need to have, like, a simmering undercurrent of some kind of resentment
00:34or personal turmoil.
00:37The fact that she asked for her show to be videotaped that day indicates to me premeditation.
00:43She's plotting something.
00:45All right, go for it, Kate.
00:46Do I say my name again?
00:47Sure.
00:48My name's Kate.
00:52Acting became this outlet for me to be seen.
00:55I do worry the impulse is perhaps an unhealthy one.
01:03She had a tan.
01:05Her waist-length black hair was clean and shiny.
01:07And her black and white print dress complemented her long, slim figure.
01:11I have a lot of friends down in Sarasota.
01:12I asked them all about it.
01:14They had never heard of her.
01:15Just by people moving in, moving out, people are going to forget that type of thing.
01:19I'm hoping to find tape of Christine Chubbuck.
01:22Not the tape of her suicide, but anything at all.
01:24This is what's haunted me for 41 years now.
01:26And this didn't come out in any of the other stories that I know of.
01:31Until I make all of this feel as natural as possible, I just feel like I'm playing dress-up.
01:39I don't know.
01:40I don't know what to do, Robert.
01:41I don't know what to do.
01:42I don't know what this scene is.
01:43I don't know.
01:43Here, let's go again.
01:44Just go again.
01:47How do you think that works?
01:49Very badly.
01:50Because I'm not prepared.
01:52I'm trying to get as close to it as I can.
01:54It seems to be somewhat compulsive.
02:02People still talk about Christine Chubbuck?
02:04Not at all.
02:05No.
02:06No.
02:06You die two times.
02:09You die when you pass away.
02:11And then you die the last time somebody mentions your name.
02:14You die when you pass away.
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