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.

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 ...

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 ...

As WPVI-TV Harrisburg Bureau Chief Jim Murtha rushed to make probably the most important deadline of his life, he realized he could smell gunpowder on his overcoat from the shot that state Treasure… ...

Witness: Budd Dwyer suicide "It was a terrible event. The kind of thing I never want to see again in my life. The Capitol press corps, a tough bunch of reporters, was devastated. Everybody's in shock.

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.