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Dec 31, 2014 · Robert Budd Dwyer (November 21, 1939 – January 22, 1987) was an American politician. He served from 1971 to 1981 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania...
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Since Dwyer died in office, his widow Joanne was able to collect full survivor benefits totaling more than $1.28 million (equivalent to about $3.43M in 2023), which at the time was the largest death benefit payment ever made by the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System. If Dwyer had been sentenced, state law would have prohibited the payment of his state-provided pension benefits.
Jan 23, 1987 · Dwyer reportedly left instructions for his own funeral and an organ donor card. He also wrote in a statement released after his death that his public suicide would be the “story of the decade.”
Jan 22, 1987 · State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, convicted in a bribery scandal and facing the possibility of a life behind bars, shot himself to death at a news conference today before TV cameras and dozens of ...
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Dwyer was convicted in 1986 of 11 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, perjury and interstate transportation in aid of racketeering. He was scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 23, 1987, but called a press conference for the day before. None of Dwyer’s staff knew what he would discuss that day. Most of the people assembled, including members of the media...
Richard Patrick was 17 at the time of Dwyer’s death, and four years passed before something clicked. By then, Patrick was a touring guitarist with Nine Inch Nails. “On one stop, there was this little booth that was selling books, and they gave me this weird video tape,” he told Billboard in 2020. “That wasn’t Faces of Death, but it had footage from...
Some fans mistakenly believed the track was inspired by the suicide of Kurt Cobain, which Patrick roundly denied. “For years, I walked around, going, 'Holy fuck! People are getting the wrong idea about this song,’” Patrick told Billboard. “You know, you write a song in your mom and dad’s basement, and all of a sudden, Nirvanafans are like, ‘Why are...
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Jan 23, 1987 · In a letter delivered later to Gov. Robert P. Casey, a Democrat who was inaugurated Tuesday, Mr. Dwyer, who was 47 years old, said he regretted that ''the 'justice' system did not function ...
Jan 21, 2013 · 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.
