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Well, if you're wondering what's happened, so am I.

Actually, the computer that we have running our news from time to time took off and went wild.

And today we're looking at harrowing instances where news broadcasts were disrupted by sudden, unscripted and often tragic events that left audiences in total disbelief.

Viewer discretion is strongly advised as many of the entries in this video contain graphic and sensitive content.

But you know, you see it playing on the news and it's just like, that's my neighbor, you know, and

Lee Harvey Oswald murdered by Jack Ruby from Dallas, Texas.

President Kennedy died at 1:00pm Central Standard Time, 2:00 Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago.

Kennedy just two days prior had already plunged the United States into a state of profound national grief and shock.

It was against this backdrop, on November 24, 1963, that Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of Kennedy's murder, was being transferred from Dallas police headquarters to the county jail.

Cameras from multiple networks were rolling, capturing every detail of this highly anticipated moment from the throngs of reporters and onlookers.

Nightclub owner Jack Ruby lunged forward.

In a split second, a single shot ran out, striking Oswald in the abdomen and instantly making American history.

The dingy little strip club run by Jack Ruby, the man who killed the President's assassin, has been closed for nearly a year now.

Ruby himself under sentence of death, is in the county jail awaiting the hearing of his appeal.

In Sarasota, Florida today, a 29 year old talk show hostess shot herself in the head live on television.

The woman, Christine Chubbuck, was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

Chubbuck wrote and starred in a half hour daily show called the Suncoast Digest on station WXLT TV.

On July 15, 1974, Christine Chubbuck, a news reporter for WXLT TV in Sarasota, Florida, began her program Suncoast Digest.

After reporting on a shooting from the previous day, Chubbuck looked directly into the camera and made the following statement.

In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts and in living color, you're going to see another first.

She then pulled out a.38 caliber revolver from beneath her desk and shot herself.

The station cut to a public service announcement, but it was too late.

The horrific act had already transpired live on air.

Chubbuck was pronounced dead, age 2914 hours later thank you all for being here and thanks for discussing this with me.

Jeffrey Paul Doucet was a karate instructor in Baton rouge, and

on February 19th, he kidnapped one of his students, 12 year old Jody Ploshe.

One week later, Doucet telephoned the boy's mother, June Ploshe, and

demanded she fly to New York to meet him and bring her three other children with her if she ever expected to see Jody alive again.

Gary Plouch, a Louisiana father, has been searching for Jeffrey Doucet, the man who had kidnapped and sexually abused his son.

On March 16, 1984, local news crews were present at the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport expecting to capture footage of Doucet's extradition back to Louisiana.

So when they brought him back, my father, with the knowledge that Jeff was going to be at the airport at this particular time, he had the gun in his boot.

He called his best friend from the pay phone and they made a video that y' all were celebrating 40 years later on Father's Day.

Amidst the scrum of reporters and police officers, Doucet, handcuffed and shackled, was being escorted across the terminal.

Then, in a sudden explosive turn of events, Gary Plousch emerged from the crowd near a bank of payphones.

He approached Doucet and shot him point blank in the head.

The entire chilling sequence was broadcast live to stunned audiences by local ABC affiliate WBRZTV.

So the 25th space shuttle mission is now on the way, after more delays than NASA cares, to the January 28, 1986 launch of the space shuttle Challenger carried New Hampshire educator Krista McAuliffe, the first teacher in space, which generated intense media interest.

The era Cape Canaveral was thick with excitement as the shuttle ignited its engines and began its ascent.

Let's go down to the Kennedy Space center and take a look at Challenger sitting on the pad.

Liftoff of the 25th space shuttle mission and it has cleared the tower.

For 73 seconds, the launch proceeded as planned.

Then in a heart wrenching instant, the shuttle exploded into a fiery cloud, disintegrating directly before the eyes of the world.

The live CNN feed, which moments before had shown a soaring triumph, now depicted plumes of smoke and debris falling toward the ocean.

Looks like a couple of the solid rocket boosters blew away from the side of the shuttle in an explosion.

Flight controllers here looking Very carefully at the situation.

In the last paragraph of his speech to reporters, Dwyer today said, last May, I told you that after the trial, I would give you the story of the decade.

In an effort to see if the shameful facts spread out in all the shame will not burn through our civic shamelessness and set fire to American pride, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Arba Dwyer convened a press conference on January 22, 1987, ostensibly to address his conviction on bribery charges.

Dwyer had maintained his innocence throughout the ordeal.

As the cameras rolled, Dwyer began to deliver a lengthy, impassioned speech rather than a resignation.

Dwyer produced a manila envelope and pulled out a.357 caliber magnum revolver.

A troubled man in Pennsylvania called a news conference, the news being that he pulled a gun and shot himself to death.

As videotape cameras and still cameras recorded the actual.

And there it was again, one of those monstrous moments of truth that reveals similarities.

We don't often dwell on similarities between the process we call television and the process of the human soul.

Despite shouts from reporters to put the gun down, he warned bystanders against intervening, stating, this'll hurt someone.

Dwyer then put the barrel of the gun into his mouth and pulled the trigger.

And Pennsylvania news stations were left to determine just how much of the grisly incident they could show on television.

Please tell my story on every radio and TV station and in every newspaper and magazine in the United States.

Please make sure that the sacrifice of my life is not in vain.

That is the verbatim text of the last paragraph of Dwyer's remarks before he shot himself.

The man who had been permitted to watch the broadcast in the studio had given no indication of his intent.

He had been sitting quietly until David Horowitz was ready to begin broadcasting his consumer segment, knbc.

Los Angeles news reporter David Horowitz once found himself becoming the story.

During a live afternoon broadcast on August 19, 1987, a man named Gary Stolman held Horowitz at gunpoint, demanding to read a rambling, incoherent statement on air.

All right, well, let me read this, folks.

We have someone on the set who's standing here and would like me to read.

Horowitz, showing remarkable composure, attempted to de escalate the situation, agreeing to read the assailant's statement while the station's feed was cut and replaced with a police standby card.

After about 30 harrowing minutes, Horowitz finished the statement and convinced Stewart to place the weapon on the desk, allowing police to move in.

This bizarre incident felt like something.

Something ripped straight from a dystopian sci fi film unfolding late one Sunday evening In Chicago on November 22, 1987, viewers of WGN TV were engrossed in a segment of the 9 o' clock news about the Chicago Bears, when suddenly the screen warped and distorted.

What followed was a roughly 30 second intrusion.

A pirate broadcast featuring a masked figure later dubbed the Max Headroom Hacker, mocking the real Max Headroom character and and mimicking his distinctive stutter.

Just minutes later, the same hacker struck again, interrupting a doctor who broadcast on PBS affiliate WTTW.

This second intrusion lasted about 90 seconds, this time subjecting the figure to a simulated spanking from an unseen hand.

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