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 ...

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: ...

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.

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 ...

In choosing the manner in which he would end his life, Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer chose an exit that was dramatic. Near the conclusion of yesterday’s news conference in which he blamed ...

Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer held a pistol as he prepared s to kill himself in front of cameras during a news conference in his State Capitol office in Harrisburg, Pennsylvannia on ...

Politician R. Budd Dwyer died by suicide on Jan. 22, 1987, ... As people pleaded with him to put the gun down, Dwyer placed the barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

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.

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 ...