Post by Michael on May 28, 2016 2:35:48 GMT
I hope this isn't too morbid to post but have been fascinated with this story on and off for about 8-9 years or so and I ran across this tidbit of information:
How the Video of Christine Chubbuck’s Suicide Became a Very Macabre ‘Holy Grail’
Steve Newman, WXLT’s weatherman at the time, picks up the story from there in Kate Plays Christine’s interview: “There is only one copy of that videotape for that last day that exists. Nobody copied it.” It may have had at least one viewer while still in the station's headquarters: Quinn, who wrote the Post story, tells me she recalls watching a recording at WXLT "many times" while writing her story, but doesn't have any information about what happened to the tape after that. Newman explains that the station’s then-owner, the late Robert Nelson, kept the tape for himself, and that his widow, Mollie, currently has it. (Mollie Nelson did not return a request for comment, but the station — now called WWSB — confirmed that it doesn't have a copy.) “She wants to throw it in the Bay,” Newman says of Mollie. “And I said, ‘Don’t do that. Give it to the Newseum or Columbia School of Journalism or something, for safekeeping.’ Because it is history, as unfortunate as the history is.”
How the Video of Christine Chubbuck’s Suicide Became a Very Macabre ‘Holy Grail’
Steve Newman, WXLT’s weatherman at the time, picks up the story from there in Kate Plays Christine’s interview: “There is only one copy of that videotape for that last day that exists. Nobody copied it.” It may have had at least one viewer while still in the station's headquarters: Quinn, who wrote the Post story, tells me she recalls watching a recording at WXLT "many times" while writing her story, but doesn't have any information about what happened to the tape after that. Newman explains that the station’s then-owner, the late Robert Nelson, kept the tape for himself, and that his widow, Mollie, currently has it. (Mollie Nelson did not return a request for comment, but the station — now called WWSB — confirmed that it doesn't have a copy.) “She wants to throw it in the Bay,” Newman says of Mollie. “And I said, ‘Don’t do that. Give it to the Newseum or Columbia School of Journalism or something, for safekeeping.’ Because it is history, as unfortunate as the history is.”
