On this day, Jan. 22, in 1987, on the eve of his sentencing for a bribery conviction, Pennsylvania state Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer shot and killed himself at a news conference on live television.
Dwyer, who was facing up to 55 years in prison, called reporters to his office in Harrisburg. They assumed he was going to announce his resignation
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