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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the last paragraph of his speech to reporters before he killed himself in 1987, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer said ...

Everyone expected state Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, convicted of corruption, to announce his resignation at a news conference, 35 years ago this week. Instead, during a rambling speech in which he blamed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 22, 1987, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer committed suicide on live TV. This is the original report from WGAL News ...