• What country aired a TV segment in which its two hosts casually eat each other?
How was one local news reporter forced to read a statement about CIA creating alien
clones?
From the shocking to the bizarre, here are 15 of the most disturbing things ever caught
on live television.
15 – The Draft Lottery • The military draft instituted for the
Vietnam War isn't generally considered one of the United States' happier memories.
• But on December 1st, 1969, CBS put the draft selections on live television.
• They didn't name names, but from Washington D.C., they drew birthdays, to determine who
would be selected to fight in Vietnam.
• The first birthday selected was September 14th.
14 – 1972 Olympic Massacre • During the 1972 Olympics in Munich, a
band of terrorists calling themselves Black September took 11 Israeli hostages – five
Olympic athletes and six coaches.
• By the time the situation had been resolved, the hostages were all dead, as were more than
half of the terrorists, and one police officer.
• Though the cameras managed to avoid anything messy and gory, they DID catch glimpses of
the masked terrorists on the balcony.
• The Munich attack marked the first time a terror attack had been broadcasted live
and covered in real time.
13 – JoDon Romero chase • Fox News is never one to turn down a good
car chase.
So in 2012, when they got ahold of one in progress, they cut to it in the mid-afternoon,
as usual.
• JoDon Romero was the man behind the wheel in that chase, and as the chase neared its
conclusion, he decided there was only one way out.
• He got out of his car, ran for a bit, then put a gun to his head and pulled the
trigger.
• The Fox News cameras didn't cut back to the studio until after Romero had already
slumped lifelessly to the ground.
12 – Death in the Ring • The March 24, 1962 edition of "Friday
Night Fights" on the Disney-owned ABC network was to feature the third bout between Emile
Griffith and Benny "Kid" Paret, with the welterweight championship on the line.
• And that's exactly what they featured – the third and final fight between the
boxers.
• In the 12th round of that fight, Paret got his hands tangled up in the ropes, giving
Griffith a free shot.
• That free shot was actually 26 free punches to the head, by the time the ref stopped the
fight.
Paret was beaten so badly, he slipped into a coma, and died 10 days later.
• And that's the story of how Disney showed a man being beaten to death on live TV.
11 – Live Cannibalism • It's hard to imagine someone airing cannibalism
on live TV on purpose.
• And yet, one Dutch TV show featured a pair of presenters literally eating each other.
• Each of them had a small chunk of flesh surgically removed, prepared by a professional
chef, and presented to the other as a meal.
• Supposedly the stunt was as part of an organ donation drive... but it's hard to really
see the connection?
10 – JetBlue Flight 292 Emergency Landing • On September 21, 2005, JetBlue Flight
292 from Burbank, California to New York City had a problem.
The front landing gear was twisted sideways, and was thus unusable for landing.
• To lighten the plane for landing, the flight did circles in a holding pattern to
burn as much fuel as possible.
• But while the plane was burning its fuel reserves, camera crews caught wind of the
impending crash landing, and it became a live TV spectacle as audiences braced for a potentially
fiery conclusion.
• Luckily, the plane was landed expertly with only a few sparks to show for it.
Less than 10 minutes passed between the plane skidding to a halt on the runway and the passengers
disembarking, completely unharmed.
9 – Hulk Hogan Choke-Out • Richard Beltzer's talk show in 1985 was
one of many to promote the first-ever Wrestlemania.
• The show featured Hulk Hogan and Mr. T, and in the interest of showmanship, Beltzer
suggested that Hogan perform some wrestling moves on him.
• Hogan agreed, but probably figured a full-fledged pile driver might be too much.
So he put Beltzer in a fairly safe sleeper hold.
• Beltzer must have forgotten to tap, because within seconds, Hogan ended up choking him
out on his own show.
Beltzer collapsed and flopped onto the ground like a rag doll, smashing his head in the
process.
8 – Reporters murdered on-scene • In August of 2015, Alison Ward and Adam
Ward were just interviewing the director of the local chamber of commerce in Moneta, Virginia.
• In the middle of their interview, they were gunned down by Bryce Williams, a disgruntled
former employee of the same station.
• Both journalists died, and the gunman himself fatally shot himself after an ensuing
car chase with police.
7 – Inejiro Asanuma debate • Inejiro Asanuma was a controversial politician
in postwar Japan, as a supporter of Mao Zedong's Communist Party in China and a critic of Japan's
friendly relationship with the United States after World War 2.
• Political tensions were high as the country was figuring out where to go after the fall
of its empire.
• But even still, nobody expected for his tenure to end the way it did.
• In 1960, during a nationally-televised debate, a 17-year-old extreme nationalist
rushed the stage and fatally stabbed Asanuma with a foot-long samurai sword.
6 – Conspiracy theorist • In August of 1987, a crazed conspiracy
theorist named Gary Stollman charged a live news broadcast at KNBC with a real-lookingtoy
gun.
• His demands were simply for the anchor to read his prepared written statement...
about how aliens had replaced his family with clones, and the CIA was covering it up.
• David Horowitz, the anchor, kept his cool and read the statement with a gun trained
on him, even though the network had cut away before the statement was read.
• Afterwards, Stollman put down the weapon and was arrested without a fight.
5 – Challenger Explosion • About 17 percent of America watched the
Space Shuttle Challenger lift off, rise into the stratosphere, and explode.
• About 85 percent had heard about it within an hour, in an era before the internet, cell
phones, or social media.
• What was going to be a triumph of space travel – putting the first teacher in space
– was instead a horrifying disaster that halted the U.S. space shuttle program for
32-months.
4 – Magician Dies During Act • Tommy Cooper was a comedian whose bits
often involved being something of a bumbling magician.
• As a result, his acts would usually involve some sort of slapstick humor involving him
botching a magic trick.
• So on April 15, 1984, when he passed out on stage during a show on live TV, the audience
laughed, assuming it was part of the bit.
• They had no idea Cooper had suffered a heart attack and was dying on stage in front
of them.
3 – Executing a Dictator • In 1989, Romania executed its long-time
Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, and his wife Elena, by firing squad.
• On Christmas Day, the couple was tried in a military tribunal after the citizens
and the army had turned on the regime.
• The trial lasted less than an hour, and mere minutes later, they were lined up against
a wall and executed.
That footage aired in Romania, and then around the world, to show that the complete overthrow
of the regime had been completed.
2 – Reporter Suicide • The WXLT-TV news broadcast from Sarasota,
Florida on July 15, 1974 started normally enough.
It was just another day of reading the news.
• That is, until reporter Christine Chubbuck took to the air with the following statement:
• "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
and in living color, you are going to see another first: attempted suicide."
• After reading that statement, Chubbuck shot herself dead, becoming the first person
to commit suicide on a live broadcast.
1 – Lee Harvey Oswald Assassination • Though there is footage of the event,
former U.S. President John F. Kennedy was not killed on live TV.
• However, the man charged with his murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, attracted a lot of live
broadcasts when he was being transported to the county jail.
• But during the transfer, a man named Jack Ruby barged in and fired a bullet into Oswald's
chest, fatally wounding him.
• Oswald's murder was the first ever to be captured on live television.
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