Christine Chubbuck Tape

Sounds like you’re on the right track. Hope your efforts bear some fruit.

I'm sure, if PJDyer is still out there, he wouldn't admit to it. I imagine audio of the broadcast would be just as triggering to Christine's remaining family as if the actual video footage got out. I'm also of the personal opinion that eventually the parties that might have copies of the actual video footage will someday crack and post the footage somewhere online. I believe it's only a matter of time until another someone acquires the footage and lacks the fear of getting caught. I think the fear of getting caught is the biggest reason as to why those who do have alternate copies of the footage don't upload it anywhere. Just a personal theory but it makes sound sense to me.

Well, I'm not sure if you've seen it or not, but the video of Budd Dwyer's live TV suicide doesn't have brains sprayed all over the place either. But, the end result is rather messy and takes someone with a strong stomach to watch. I won't describe the material here. I have seen and copied the videos of Dwyer's ending as well as the video of his speech leading up to that moment. That speech video humanizes Dwyer for me. He's sweating bullets the entire speech, which gives insight into what he was thinking of the entire time. The man was probably terrified of going to prison as well as terrified of what he had chosen to do to himself. If he had chosen prison, at least he would've still been alive for the sake of his family, I feel. That would've been better than what he ended up doing. I downloaded both videos due to the fact that I collect rare/lost media from the internet where I can, knowing videos can be deleted in a snap if someone out there deems it inappropriate for the masses.

Okay, I figured as much. I knew Kate, an actress I never knew about prior to seeing her do the part, had seen the footage of that Suncoast Digest that was included in that E channel special but I didn't know that she had seen more than that. I have the 'Kate Plays Christine' film but have only watched a little bit. I found Kate's little rant before doing the suicide scene a little unnecessary. I suppose she was trying to make a statement. I can support her if her statement was conveying that Christine was human just like the rest of us, but she could've done it in a different way. I need to watch the full film eventually to see that scene again, I may have it out of context. I watched it quite a long time ago.

If Kate saw the footage of Christine doing news reports, I wonder if the former anchor who has the footage did the smart thing and digitized the footage or made DVDs. His video tapes must be rather old if he was working at the station at the same time Christine had been there. Video tape degrades over time. There are special circumstances where the degradation can be slowed like if the tape has only been played a small handful of times or not played ever or stored in a decent environment. I have experience with that, transferring VHS tapes from the mid to late 80's. Some are warbly and wrinkly in video and audio while others that were maybe watched once and stored in a decent place where the video and audio are nearly pristine as if the footage were recorded yesterday. I've never worked with video tape from the 1970's before, I really would love to but never have gotten the chance to yet.

I totally understand, everyone has their levels of tolerance. I can see disturbing material only to a certain extent myself before it’s too much. I wouldn’t want to see any of it all of the time. I have a side interest in true crime related media and stories so I have developed somewhat a tolerance for those sorts of details, but only so much.

Those news casts I was waiting a long time to see after I saw brief clips in one of the documentary videos I saw about Christine.

I think that weather man with his archives and WXLT will intentionally sit on the footage of anything to do with her forever. It will take all people associated with Christine from that time period to die off before someone objective gets in charge of those archives. For all we know the former weather man will make sure to destroy his copies before he dies, essentially erasing Christine Chubbuck from memory as a person and only associate her as some news woman who unalived herself. Very backwards thinking with their actions in my opinion.

Apparently my quoting of your post did t work right and it looks like my post was part of what I quoted from yours.mine starts at the dashes I added to differentiate our posts. I’m not good at using this board apparently 🤦🏻‍♂️

I personally would never use time trying to get footage out of someone like Newman. He’s got his reasoning, I just think it’s a waste him not using his footage of her as a means of shutting down the impression that Christine was just a crazy person who shot herself, which she wasn’t. I don’t know, barking up the wrong tree with him. I don’t think he’d ever budge.

Really sounds sketchy how everyone who is anyone involved with the event are trying to erase all of their traces of Christine. Almost like they actually want her to be forgotten and they don’t have to deal with the subject anymore. I wouldn’t want to suspect a cover-up, like I do with the infamous on its own law enforcement handling of the Jodi Husentruit case. I am thinking here the people related around Christine’s whole event just want to distance from it and move on with their lives.

I would be curious to hear what that researcher has to say about what he knows or may have.