Christine Chubbuck Tape

Ah. I would like this to be found. But I don't want to vomit after seeing Christine blow her brains out.

(i also tapped into my inner preacher, idk why)

I'd assume someone here has to keep some kind of super secret MEGA account, perhaps titled inconspicuously.

It seems likely to me that there is a copy somewhere online, or a lot of people are imagining what they saw. On the findadeath website page for Christine Chubbuck several people claim to have seen at some point. It's not inconceivable that someone in the 1970s would have had a Phillips VCR recorder, which if I recall was released before betamax, and would have been available at the time of her on air suicide. The problem of course is the chance that someone happened to be recording the program with a device that few people had on a small television station seems to be rather unlikely. Even if someone did record it it at that point there is the possibility that they either deleted it because they deeply disturbed, no longer have the tape, or simply do not know there is demand for it.

What's interesting to me though is that when comparing this with Armin Meiwes who recorded the cannibalistic act, there are photos of it. If the footage was only shown to the jury how would it have got out there, albeit in a more limited form. It seems conceivable that there are people who have access to these tapes make duplicates just in case, which is also possible with the Christine tapes. It's possible a worker at the station understood that this was an important event and duplicated the tape and released it online as well. I'm curious to know either way.

That being said, I don't see her family releasing the tape. I don't think they would want that footage online and be reminded of what occurred, and I can't blame for that at all.

"As the broadcast took place in 1974, it's possible (though highly unlikely) that the suicide could've been recorded by a home viewer, as several primitive VCRs had been made commercially available by that time (such as the U-matic, one of the first home video recorders; although due to the high cost of the unit, it was incredibly rare for a 1974 household to possess one)."

-lostmediawiki.com/The_Christine_Chubbuck_tape_(lost_on_air_suicide;_1974)

Which reminds me, I need to update that article, now that a copy has been confirmed to exist (and also add mentions to the two films about her).

Christine's brother Greg is dead set against the release of this tape and has even condemned the movies coming out and I believe her mother died in the 1990s. 

Exactly. I think someone is looking for attention,money, or reasons to release it.