“I went flying out to the studio thinking it was a very uncouth joke, and I was going to give her a mouthful,” said the show’s technical director Linford Rickard.
Chubbuck was rushed to the hospital and died 15 hours later.
Last words
While the Ohio native didn’t leave a suicide note, she left behind her script – stained by her blood on the news desk – to be read after the shooting.
Written in third person, it described a TV personality who, after shooting herself in a live broadcast, was in “critical condition” at the Sarasota Memorial Hospital.
Her last words, “an attempted suicide,” at first confused people but as her co-workers explained, Chubbuck “was too good to write’ a suicide’ when it might have failed.”
And her mother told the Washington Post that “Chris was hedging her bets.”Continue reading…
