Christine Chubbuck Tape

The only problem is I didn’t shove it in her face. I asked for permission to send a link without the gunshot (not my exact words, I said “that does not include the last 10 seconds”) got no response so I never sent any link or presented any recording.

Oh, that makes it 100% a-okay and totally not intrusive at all.

"Hey, check out this recording of your friend's tragic death that's almost certainly scarred you for life! Don't worry, the gunshot's missing so it's all good!"

Dude, either you are a young/naive person with some empathy skills to build, or you're being obtuse. But in case it's the former, people don't like having past trauma shoved in their face. Especially not at random, and even more especially at the behest of strangers itching to satiate their morbid curiosity without any respect for the dead. Actions similar to yours have deliberately hurt the victims family all over again, as the recent pages of this thread show. You are causing tangible harm to other people no matter how you justify it to yourself.

My mom was raped. My uncle committed suicide. My dad had surgery he almost didnt survive. If some dunderhead asked me to ID crime photos or footage or audio related to those events, I know for a fact it would greatly upset me and I would be very angry with the person doing it.

Youre not some great preservationist or researcher doing what you're doing. You are a voyeur who enjoys stirring the pot.

Which is exactly why it ought to be locked. It's a stain on our community and what we are supposed to represent. Threads in this sub-forum tend to revolve around bringing attention to something and subsequently coordinating search efforts for its retrieval. Therefore, by keeping this thread open, the mods are implicitly condoning the kind of crude, amateur, unasked-for """"investigating"""" as conducted by people like ImJunkie, even if they may explicitly deny that fact. (In a post on page 30-something which no one will see.) I'm sure some may take offense to what I just said, but at the very least we should all be able to agree it sends a mixed message.

I'm all for free speech and I'm all for searching for explicit content (as in like, X-rated films and stuff) but it's clear that this little endeavor is continuously doing real harm to the surviving victims. Maybe sleazy """"detectives"""" are gonna harass those poor people anyway, but the LMW should not be the forum in which such acts are conducted or encouraged. (Implicitly or explicitly.) The duty to actively prevent further harm should supercede "muh history" / "Im JuSt ReSpEcTiNg HeR wIsH tHe TaPe Be SeEn"

If this keeps up it WILL give lost media archivalists--y'know, the ones that actually find and preserve (nearly) lost films/TV/books--a bad name. And it may lead to actual legal consequences for individual participants and/or the site as a whole.

Anon… Gordon Galbraith was there wasn’t he?  I’m pretty sure he would know.

Where did he say that? Are you sure he was not referring to links to the audio in question?

Junkie I hope the tape gets burned and completely lost just to spite you. You absolutely do not deserve to have the satisfaction of finding it, especially if it resurfaces memories of that traumatic incident for your sick entertainment. You disgust me and the rest of the community.