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True Crimecast

Live On Air - Alison Parker and Adam Ward

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

On August 26, 2015, a routine morning news broadcast turned into a national tragedy when reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward were gunned down live on air. As they interviewed a local community leader in Virginia, the world watched in horror as the unimaginable unfolded on screen.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.

0:12.8

Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?

0:16.3

Hey, I'm really in a hurry today, so I just, I need some true crime, but I need it to be like,

0:21.9

close case, fast, sealed, delivered, everything fast.

0:25.1

Hold up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.

0:31.8

Welcome to True Crime to Go.

0:33.8

I am John here with Jamie.

0:35.8

How you doing, man?

0:36.4

I'm okay.

0:36.9

How are you?

0:38.2

I'm good. I'm in a hurry. I'm kidding. It's true crime to go. I am John here with Jamie. How you doing, man? I'm okay. How are you? I'm good. I'm in a hurry. I'm kidding. It's true crime to go. Apparently, yeah. I mean, a lot of times I feel like we

0:43.2

don't put a lot of thought into the intro. I feel like you overthought that one. Oh, well,

0:48.5

I didn't know what I was going to say until you hit the button. So, so you non thought yeah okay that's what does michael scott say sometimes i

0:56.1

start sentences and i have no idea or they're going to i do that so often in front of a microphone

1:00.8

it's a terrible idea but yeah this is a wow this is one that happened on live television spoiler alert

1:08.0

every true crime to go this week so the two that we have are going to be things that happened on live TV. I thought I was kind of in the mood for something like that. So I found me a couple of that or you just go down that TikTok. I went down that TikTok trail. And then I was in the mood. So both. No, I could. Totally get it. Why don't you go as rolling? Yeah, today we're going to be talking about something that happened on live TV.

1:29.5

So on the morning of August 26, 2015, that's when reporter Allison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both were employees of WBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, and they were conducting a live interview at the Bridgewater

1:46.4

Plaza near South or Smith Mountain Lake.

1:49.5

And they were speaking with Vicki Gardner.

1:51.7

She was the executive director of the local Chamber of Commerce, and this was the 50th

1:56.9

anniversary of the lake and the resort.

1:59.3

So they were there to do a, a i guess a cutesy little news article

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