When a politician calls a news conference, he or she expects the media to cover it. Everything’s on the record. But when corruption-convicted Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer punctuated his Jan.

in 1986 state treasure Budd Dwyer was convicted of bribery and was to be sentenced to 55 years in prison. The day before his sentencing, Dwyer had a press conference where he maintained his innocents.

Thirty years ago, one of the most infamous incidents in the history of Pennsylvania politics occurred in Harrisburg. R. Budd Dwyer, the convicted state treasurer, killed himself in the middle of a ...

Jan. 22 marks a dark anniversary in Pennsylvania history. At a live news conference on that date in 1987, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer pulled a .357 caliber revolver out of an envelope, ...

In the last paragraph of his speech to reporters before he killed himself in 1987, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer said the following: "Last May, I told you that after the trial, I would give ...

Mother Brain at Saint Vitus in 2014 (more by Drew Gurian) All of the dates along with flyers, streams from Department of Correction, Mother Brain, Budd Dwyer, and Sea of Bones appear below.

Budd Dwyer was a Republican politician from Pennsylvania and from 1965 to 1970, he was a member of the state House of Representatives. The following decade of his life, Budd Dwyer spent in the state ...

Jan. 22 marks 38 years since a dark day in Pennsylvania history.State Treasurer Budd Dwyer – who had been convicted of bribery and faced a maximum of 55 years in prison – took his life during a news ...

Jan. 22 marks a dark anniversary in Pennsylvania history. At a live news conference on that date in 1987, Pa. State Treasurer ...