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Was Christine Chubuck a symbol of her times, our times—or neither?

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Christine stars Rebecca Hall as the Florida journalist who shot herself on the air. On July 15, 1974, as President Nixon was being driven from office, a 29-year-old TV journalist in Sarasota, Florida, interrupted her morning talk show for a dramatic announcement. "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, we bring you another first," Christine Chubbuck told her viewers.…

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