Budd Dwyer, facing the possibility of a long prison ... But as he walked by the treasurer’s body, slumped against a cabinet with the blood running heavily from the mouth and the nose, Horshock ...

Greg Penny was a 33-year-old true believer in Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, his embattled, corruption-convicted boss. Even as the big, bear-like Dwyer rambled and sweated throughout a Jan ...

Budd Dwyer. Marshall’s movements on that snowy ... looking down at myself, almost an out-of-body experience.” Up until the gun appeared, recalled free-lance photographer Gary D.

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 ...

The footage showed Dwyer’s head snap back before his body fell against a wall, reporters screaming in shock in the background. That explicit news report – handled initially in the same manner ...

At a live news conference on that date in 1987, Pa. State Treasurer Budd Dwyer pulled a .357-caliber revolver out of an envelope, said his final words, and killed himself in front of reporters ...

Budd Dwyer’s public suicide. Along with the seven photographs that chronicled the suicide, the Associated Press turned over to the Call’s editors the responsibility for deciding which ...

Terribly, Thursday, R. Budd Dwyer did the unthinkable. Standing in front of television cameras, photographers and about 20 reporters, the state treasurer put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.