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 ...

View full size AP photo/Gary Dwight Miller, 1987 Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer raises his left hand to stop people approaching him as he holds a pistol in his right hand as he ...

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.

Just before noon yesterday, the pictures started to arrive at The Morning Call. One by one, an Associated Press Laserphoto machine delivered grisly images of Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer&#8… ...

Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, ... The manager of the gun shop said he did not recall Dwyer buying the gun. Originally Published: January 23, 1987 at 5:00 AM EST. Share this: ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Kenn Marshall recalls edging toward the door when he saw the enormous handgun being held aloft by State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer. Marshall’s movements on that snowy ...

Fit For An Autopsy have released a new song called “Thank You, Budd Dwyer” (stream below), and if you’re wondering who Budd Dwyer is (was), well, please allow FFFAA to explain: “This song is our ...

Dwyer had been convicted in December 1986 of awarding a $4.6-million contract to a firm called Computer Technology Associates in return for a promised $300,000 payoff. No money ever exchanged ...

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 ...

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.