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Christine Chubbuck, a television news reporter and the first person to commit suicide on live television, in 1974; Crime in Virginia; R. Budd Dwyer, the former state treasurer of Pennsylvania who shot himself on live television, in 1987; List of journalists killed in the United States; Workplace aggression
Christine Chubbuck [a] (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who worked for stations WTOG and WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida.. The first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast, Chubbuck shot herself in the head with a gun on July 15, 1974 during WXLT-TV's Suncoast Digest, after claiming that the network was about to present "an exclusive ...
First journalist to be killed during the U.S. Civil War. Killed by a cannonball fire while covering the Battle of Shiloh and General Ulysses S. Grant. [20] June 23, 1863: Lynde Walter Buckingham: New York Herald: Aldie, Virginia: Killed as a result of an ambush during the U.S. Civil War. He was buried at the Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church ...
MONETA, Va. (AP) -- A TV reporter and cameraman were shot to death on live television Wednesday by their former colleague, a journalist who also recorded himself carrying out the killings and then ...
Chris Hurst is a former local news anchor in Virginia, and now he’s running as a Democrat for a seat in the commonwealth’s House of Delegates.
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Juan "Johnny Walker" Jumalon was the second journalist to be killed in Mindanao while on-air since 1985, [6] the fourth journalist to be killed under the Bongbong Marcos administration since he took office in June 2022, [7] and the 199th overall since 1986. [8]
The attack by an unidentified gunman was captured on a live-stream broadcast on Facebook. ... Mr Jumalon is the 199th journalist to be killed in the Philippines since 1986, and the fourth under ...