Everything’s on the record. But when corruption-convicted Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer punctuated his Jan. 22, 1987, press conference by putting a .357 magnum in his mouth and pulling ...

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Budd Dwyer. Furthermore, one word: truth. And then a question: was there injustice? But as irony would have its way, information regarding the story of former Pennsylvania State Treasurer ...

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Budd Dwyer, called a press conference ... The 75-minute film begins with grainy news clips from the press conference and footage that sums up Dwyer’s life in a 30-second soundbites.

Budd Dwyer. After being found guilty on bribery charges ... millions of people would see the clip in moments.

On this date in 1987, Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer shot and killed himself during a televised press conference. Here's a look back at that tragic, horrific story and the popular song you ...

Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, facing the possibility of a long prison sentence on federal bribery charges, shot himself to death before a packed press conference Thursday in his office.

An earlier version of this story asserted that the suicide of R. Budd Dwyer was broadcast live on TV in 1987. A search of contemporaneous accounts indicates that some stations showed tapes of the ...