Original TV report on the suicide of Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2021
- On Jan. 22, 1987, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer committed suicide on live TV. This is the original report from WGAL News 8 chronicling what happened on that day. Please note, this report does NOT show the actual suicide. While other TV stations aired that moment, WGAL did not.
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Whether he was innocent or not, the fact that he even warned people to stand back, his last words being “This could hurt someone” maybe means he wasn’t a completely selfish man, genuinely caring for others well-being whilst taking his own life.
Sadly, the only way to provide for his family was to kill himself (his wife Joanne got the survivor's benefits from his days as a teacher and never remarried; she moved her family to Arizona and died there at age 70).
huh? I"v researched this case more than alot could say he was 100% innocent its been proven..
same thing i thought! knowing how crazy people are, he harmed no one else in that room
@@kylegallagher840 even better, then. The way he read his speech so quickly shows just how he knows it’s all gonna end, and he just wants to get through it, but he leaves behind his personal testimony/final words and personal letter for people, probably to give each person closure and an explanation of things.
No. His statement "this could hurt someone" was not about "genuinely caring about others well-being," it was a THREAT to other's well-being-- "get back, or you will get hurt too".
And other the other chap said, he was guilty as sin.
What he did at that press conference was ridiculous.
55 years for corruption?! How come some murder convictions only get 15 years?!
@@yurichtube1162how you know that?
Because in this country money (especially government money) valuable much more than humans life
@@imrytebeehyneu I assume, I do not know. I look at Joe Biden, and see how he is protected. The most corrupt man in the world, with all kinds of scandals, is not even impeached yet. Probably won't be untill he is out of office. Trump got impeached for far less, and he didn't do anything even. They just decided they don't like him, and boom
@@longliveusalongliveusa9702 Hey stupid, if that were the case, Dwyer would've just bribed his way out.
lol are you sure you should be calling people stupid @@I_Wanna_Rock_Your_Body
I saw the video. The blood was falling like a waterfall. Sad and traumatizing for the people there in person.
yeah- i was a kid when i saw it. I wasnt alive when it happened but. It looked like a really bad nose bleed.... then years later i realized what really happened.
in the room? heck, that video scared the heck out of me, i saw it at age 19 or something
@uck ua-cam.com/video/Bpe5KUGLYKU/v-deo.html
Yup, it was running like a FAUCET. I thought there would be more explosive head damage from a magnum, like with JFK, but it was pretty restricted
I still remember the footage. That stuff scarred me. So much blood just pours from his nose it makes me sick
I remember watching this guy off himself live on TV, I was six years old. It's something I'll never forget.
im so sorry.
He be aight.@@sphagettitaco
Oh wow. I saw the replay many years later, and I was still disturbed.
I remember seeing the live broadcast as a kid.
I feel sorry for you, nobody deserved to watch it. How much did it affect your life eversince?
How did you feel? What was your reaction? I’m sorry you saw it
It didn't really affect me much. Just remember thinking how crazy it was that someone killed themself on live tv, I was about 13 when it happened. Pretty sure they started to delay live broadcasts after that.
@@MrSilentSavage wow thanks for answering
@@MrSilentSavage were ppl talking about it the next day?
55 years for $300K??? That's crazy too
Mind you this was in the mid 80s that amount of money is equal to 850k today
here in Brazil, for example, current president Lula was convicted in 2018 for the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the world, billions stolen and returned after the trial. He was only imprisoned for 500 days until in 2022 the Stf, most of whom were imprisoned by Lula himself, made a political maneuver and released him.
@@Joe-jp1pb
Even though it is insane
55 years for kickback while a serial killer could get 25 years !!
Along with 11 counts of mail fraud, attempted bribery, Perjury “swearing a false oath or falsifying a affirmation to tell the truth”, and 4 counts of racketeering.
He probably wrote heartfelt notes to friends at the conference, in the envelopes he handed out. Stress and herculean fear of prison prompted the gun, and loved his wife and knew she could get his pension being dead. Very sad and tragic, dirty money can twist the thinking and normally rational decision making of a smart good man and public servant. Husband, father and friend. RIP
Or maybe he didn't want a hit put out on his life by cabal members.
Except for the fact that he was guilty
@@flyingchimp12 No, he wasn’t. At least not according to what I just read.
@@Capcoor wasn’t he convicted
@@flyingchimp12 Yes, but someone confessed 12 years ago that he was innocent. I just read a story about it on Facebook.
I remember when this station showed it live, I was 4 1/2 years old seeing this with my mom, dad and one year old brother. It was shocking to say the least.
I doubt you remember that at 4 but good try. Lol
@@thedarksideoftheforce6658lol why wouldn’t the person remember that ? I remember all kinds of stuff from age 3 up
@@thedarksideoftheforce6658 I can remember loads of things from the age of 4 onwards.
@@thedarksideoftheforce6658You don't remember because you have limited intelligence.
@@thedarksideoftheforce6658 um excuse me but I remember thing's from two years old. It is possible.
you can see the moment he dies. where his body goes slack and his eyes slowly close. it’s heartbreaking. he was alive for those first few seconds after he fell.
But not conscious, an important distinction to make
@@coldbrew6104 He was dead the moment he pulled the trigger. The bullet entered his brain at that precise moment.
Where did you find it at, do you have a link, I can’t find where it shows it anywhere?
@@19ADAM80 I'm not posting a link but it isn't difficult to find if you search for 5 minutes.
Google search it, there's an archives site that has it. @@19ADAM80
he was only 47 and looked more like 60.
This stuff is still crazy
My left ear enjoyed this.
Crazy what a 47 year old man looked like in the 80s compared to now.
Ikr. I remember looking at Maude when I was growing up and thinking that Bea Arthur and her costar Bill Macy were in their late 60s. Then I found out that they started the show at 50 and were 56 when it ended. Compare them, at that time, to Lenny Kravitz, Gwen Stefani, Janet Jackson, Cindy Crawford and Halle Berry in their 50s. It's a huge difference.
Most people born after 1975 are permanently stuck in their 20's.
Poor man. He was backed into a corner and took a horrible way out.
The fact that people in the news room didn’t even bother to cut the feed and instead showed Dwyer’s body right afterward is morally reprehensible. Why scar people by showing them that footage and not on that, turn Dwyer into a spectacle after such a tragedy? Even so, the grizzly image of him on tv understandably made his wife and children beyond devastated.
It was literally one of, if not the first time it ever happened on live television. Nobody knew what to do. Shut up with your morality policing.
@@brandonwatson2240morality policing isn't a thing. It's an individual with a reasonable comment and concern
@@killemaIlYou still get the point. Live suicides was rare in the 80s. No one knew what or how to do with the camera
grisly*
(🤓)
It’s so sick how politicians espouse the principles related to freedom of press but then have the audacity to be disgusted or irritated when the press actually question them about things they don’t want to talk about that are important for the public to know.
Freedom of the press is when trump airstrikes Syria and the media after incessant negative coverage suddenly calls him "presidential"
@@biblical_figure you can always count on the free press of america to put aside their petty differences and congratulate everyone on bombing a country the average american could not find on a map
You never studied the case at all.
Hypocrites
He was innocent you do realise that?
Conspiracy to receive kickbacks for approving government funds. If only this were prosecuted today.
Obama standardized using government agencies for political prosecution.
Coofid reference?
Certainly, but perhaps 55 years is a bit much.
The man deserved better rest in peace
Yeah rip
Why did he take his own life in the first place? This is my first time learning about it
@@thefourmusketeers7346he was about to be sentenced to prison for bribery. But for all we know he could have actually been innocent
@@mona6317 what a coward, I would rather be alive in prison to know how my siblings are doing, wife, children and it should be the parkland shooter commiting suicide not that guy bribery isn't even that bad, I don't know how Nikolas Cruz can live with himself despite murdering 17 people the mindsets are switched it should be nick and the Dwyer guy should still be alive plus murder is more worse than bribery.
no, he deserved to spend his time in prison for the crimes he committed, not take the easy way out.
The crazy thing is he was actually found innocent years later
No he wasn’t. They tried in 93 but it went nowhere. Then his family and friends made a bias documentary about it.
You can tell during his last speech that something was wrong. I'm surprised no one took notice of his nervous behavior. It broke my heart.
What makes you think they didn't notice?
I am 44, this dude was 47 ?? Yikes, I can't look that old please.
I don't know why, but people at 50 today don't look as old as those at 50, fifty years ago.
I learned about the story of Budd Dwyer via the song Hey Man Nice Shot by Filter. I looked more into Budd Dwyer’s story and the documentary Honest Man and realized he was freaking set up by the judge and the people who wanted to see him go to jail for something he didn’t commit.
Budd Dwyer was an honest man.
I wish I could have met you. Nice shot. 😢
oh yes, a documentary made by his friends and family, such great evidence! that makes him innocent, and the jury, judge and many investigators were all wrong, because Buddy boy's family and friends said he was a nice guy and innocent lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@afrya3307 i heard he was proven to b innocent after the fact.
@@afrya3307yeah the guy who testified against him said he lied on the stand to protect his wife
@@afrya3307 You know that you can contradict someone without mocking them, or mocking a dead man and his family, right? Like how much more condescending can you get than calling him "Buddy boy"? Totally unnecessary.
@@sticksbass As far as I know, you heard wrong. People keep saying this, but they don't say who "the guy" was or where they found out about this.
Where did the actual video go? UA-cam used to have it and now i cant find it.
LiveLeak or the Dark Web.
I remember when this happened. A tragic end to a great man and human being
Not that great.
55 years of prison? They didn’t even have evidence he was found guilty
Powerful people wanted him locked up I assume
Well, if you do some _actual_ searching, you'll see his supporters-- basically conservative 'fixers' that run spin and damage control every time they do something embarrassing to Party image, tried and failed six years later in 1993 for a retrial.
Denied, and all convictions upheld.
Some cameras were leaving the room and. He didnt get to read his last page which read
“Please tell my story on every radio and television station and in every newspaper and magazine in the U.S. Please leave immediately if you have a weak stomach or mind since I don't want to cause physical or mental distress. Joanne, Rob, DeeDee - I love you! Thank you for making my life so happy.“
“That’s why I say - hey, man, nice shot, good shot man”
People think that song was about Kurt Cobain but It's about Budd Dwyer.
There have been several times in my life where I've wanted to do this exact same thing to myself.
If that's so, then seek help. It's not easy to deal with these types of problems, and even more when you suffer alone. That's why having someone to talk to is really important, such as a therapist. Stay safe and well, my friend
@@bomfs8100 I tried that. It didn't work.
Maru, remember killing yourself is a “permanent solution to a typically temporary crisis.” Hey friend, we are going to be dead for a very long time some day, talk to people if you need help. No one is promised tomorrow, so today feel the breeze in your face and be grateful you have breath. Peace.
@@maruku4445 your still here atleast
Same
He was never found innocent. If so please show the evidence.
Keep in mind everything this man said has been confirmed, and he was later exonerated. Bottom line is this man was completely innocent.
His charges were upheld multiple times…
No he wasn’t, he was never exonerated and he was never found innocent, that is just a blatant lie, in 2010 it was found that he was guilty of all charges against him.
no he wasn't
Sad
@@jasminejohnson5242 it's not true
He knew if he was convicted his wife and kids would loose their pension. So he diced to kill him while still holding offic. 😢 rest in peace what a sacrifice he did for his family
And if they did lose them initially, his later exoneration would have allowed them to be restored.
He was inocent. How do i know? The witness lied in court. Look it up.
Yes he was Innocent
he was guilty. you know nothing. sit down and shutup.
@@afrya3307 Get a life.
Well, if you do some _actual_ searching, you'll see his supporters-- basically conservative 'fixers' that run spin and damage control every time they do something embarrassing to Party image, tried and failed six years later in 1993 for a retrial.
Denied, and all convictions upheld.
He then later said it was true again, Budd Dwyer wasn't innocent but his sentence would've been like hanging a school boy for running in the hallyways.
You used to be able to see the actual suicide online it appears to be gone now
It’s on twitter
Beautiful Scorpio .Bless your soul.
He was only 47? He looks like 60...
The saddest thing in the world is that in the end he was right. It was later found his conviction was bogus. He couldn't live with going to prison for a crime he didn't commit. The courts corrected the travesty of justice too late.
Lol He was as guilty as sin the courts rejected all his appeals where do you get your info from? Your own little world of make believe?
@@afrya3307what an ignorant fool
@@justsomedeadguy439take a look in the mirror ...that is you😂🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@afrya3307proof?
@@auntymurda the court files are Linked in the Wiki article
The sad thing is, he was found not guilty the next day so he didn't need to take his life... But i can understand why, 55 years in prison sounds like a fate worse than death
You think he would have at least waited to see the outcome..
This is the first suicide i've ever seen I remember this from back in the day
@@igot5onit423 I think him and everyone he knew was certain the courts would find him guilty so he didn't want to chance it
He found guilty and his sentencing was the next day or the day after.
@@igot5onit423he killed himself when he did so his wife could get his pension, being sentanced would have automatically removed him from office.
He seemed like a really nice guy. Such a shame
where is my unclaimed property?
@@DCOM20. He did not kill himself?
55 YEARS ??? WTF
If only all the 'family values' politicians that keep getting caught as rapists and pedophiles got that kind of punishment, or followed suit.
May God accept him into Paradise.
Isn’t suicide a sin
Apart from Christ none of us can be excepted into Gods presence
@@jgeph2.4 Jesus died for us to be accepted
God doesnt exist.
@@oboyz3848 lolz
Miss them Era...
"This won't hurt someone"
This happened 6 years before I was born
Where is the original video
Internet archive
All of the videos thet showed him dying are removed
0:14 my mom had one of those picture film cameras, the one Budd Dwyer is holding
It’s terrible that he did suicide because he was innocent the whole entire time and if you don’t believe then okay..
He was setup
@@bigboy6691 i’m just telling you it
@@elizabethaftonthepeep-afto2259 pretty funny thing to say in reply to a comment
@@MixMastaCopyCat I don’t get it -
@@elizabethaftonthepeep-afto2259 you are contradicting yourself, you are replying to say you are not replying to comments.
budd dwyer death was on youtube at one time yeap there was gore on youtube
There is a video on here and you can actually see him kill himself and it’s horrific if anyone wants to know the video I can put the name
@Hercules Shakespeare yeah there is I think the UA-cam name ins grim or sum but just type his name and keep scrolling
@Hercules Shakespeare yep I just checked his name is Dark n Grim
bro i literally saw the video of him dying on yt i think its taken down now i thought it was fake cuz theres no way it really was on yt
I saw it too on UA-cam some time ago
You can find it on Reddit easily
You can find real situations any time you put a device down, real deal people exist
In my opinion. Bro was a good man, he cared about others when he killed himself and told people to stand back because it might get them hurt, innocent or not he only wanted to hurt himself and not others. But I heard most people say he was innocent and he didn’t do those crimes and I guess those false allegations did him dirty and took a mental toll on him which made him kill himself
Your spot on BUT Budd also did it to protect His family. There were talks 'they" "govmnt" were goin' to pull His pension out from under Him. Not a fan of public officials or govmnt period; there are exceptions for a few especially one's during that era or further back. Budd had about $1.25MiL in His pension that He Honestly earned during His service as State Treasurer and His Teaching career to the folks of Pennsylvania. Budd was set up 'cause He called BS to Pennsylvania's Governor at that time 'cause Governor Thornberg was using tax payers monies for personal expenses; Budd said that was not right and called it out on Thornberg.
This guy. He was innocent, he wasn’t a criminal, well yeah,he is found guilty but, the person who take deal with bud said that bud was innocent and sad part is that he keeps saying he’s innocent and no one believed him. He gave up and decided to end his life.
is he ok?
😭
That’s a hard 47
Biedny facet.!!!. R. I. P 💔😢
Suicide means admission of guilt!
Not necessarily.
Did he survive?
No
He ATE A .357!!! Survey says...
Um, no.
False title change it
Criminal
Why is there a warning on this? It's just part of history... 😳
It depicts a suicide, but is considered newsworthy. In fact, as the video shows, it's News 8's original broadcast.
He would have been out by now, if he hadn't taken offing one's self path.
Oh my
He was innocent the whole time this is tragic.
Yeah the democrats tried to frame him.
No
@@flyingchimp12 yes
lol he was as guilty as sin.
@@afrya3307 it came put later that he was.
Need more ceos to do this.
I read "celebs" lol
@James Smith to think that only one side has the corrupt is the be blind. The whole system is broken man.
@James Simpson both sides have idiots. It's the rich vs the poor. Stop reducing yourself to a small label.
@James Armstrong by definition he ran in politics to the position of president so, yes. You voted for him in a political process called a democratic election. Is there anything I can further explain to you? I'm always up for enlightening folks.
Lol
That was a man! who had balls of steel!
Poor guy I've see full video it's not pretty
Man
and it’s crazy, no me will care ab what they delt with in their lives until they are gone. No one has empathy until something like this happens. No one cares no know the details of anything until it gets bad. It’s an extremely sad reality we live in and i hope we get better in the future with sentences and how the media portrays people. This is disgusting no matter what side you’re on. Human beings will find this disgusting, monsters in congress… maybe not so much?
What's really sad is he was really innocent
No he was not lmfao
@@dogassofficial Yes he was, he was found not guilty years later.
Untrue.
no he wasn't
@@dogassofficial Do some research
Just watched the video. Pretty savage looking. Also found out filter complimented his aim in one of their hit songs.
😮😮😮 Also remember it was a Snow Day for kids and there were 3 channels. Sooo yeah.
Why is this footage so bad looking? Its only from 1987, but looks like its from 1967.
He looks like a Soviet politician.
He did bad
wow that glossed over a lot, also i believe he was innocent
He was
He was proven innocent and exonerated in 2010.
@@zoidburg2975 that is an utter lie. you like to spread lies?
He's on Bestgore....
The irony is that this happens everyday in the US. We just call it lobbying nowadays. 😂
😢
I grew up around HARRISBURG politics . What happened to Budd Dwyer was a sin. I’m lifelong democrat and the snake in the grass William Tricket Smith was the REAL criminal , having had perjured at Budd Dwyer’s trial. I’ve long thought that Bud Dwyer’s family deserved compensation for his wrongful conviction .
lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cringe
dems r devilish,. how can u b a dem?
Well I was alive when I vaguely heard about it back then but I didn’t really know who it was or the details because I worked a lot of hours back then .Now that I know , my assessment? Well I think he was guilty of some corruption but indeed it seems he was sentenced by a hanging judge and that sentence was way to extreme since allegedly no cash was ever exchanged . Anybody ever investigate that judge ? I kind of catch a whiff of judicial misconduct poo emanating through the barrier of time .
Awol nation, not amen nation
--Al Capone
i‘m here from the $boy$
i love death grips
47!
$.u.i.c.i.d.e.
He died from a nosebleed.
@Squish_Bean seriously? You must be new here.
"I didn't shoot him...it was the gun!!" -ozzy song sound effects from "Tomorrow" song
His blood was also pouring out of his mouth and from the exit wound.
He hit some major artery for that blood to gush out like it did. It was brutal.
Aquí los que vinieron de tikto
이거 끝까지 촬영하는 것도 소름이더라..
Nice shot!
"Poor choice of words"
Ill mannered
@Skyy_JayJay bro he was innocent you should be ashamed of yourself
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I watched the video today and it was my first gore
How did it go?
It wasn’t bad honestly I was just watching it like it was normal video
It was a gif on reddit
I see.
I watched it months ago and I regret it.
I’ve seen some pretty horrible stuff on the internet over the years, and I’m pretty much numb to it all, but this video was really disturbing. The footage immediately after he pulls the trigger is brutal.
Era muy guapo atractivo
Bro didn’t hesitate. What a Top G.
And Hillary has never been charged.
The guy was only 47 years old. He must've partied hard.
I wish would happen to more politicians
Like who?
Joe biden, Hillary Clinton, a good start
[UNKNOWN] Mitch McConnell
You wish they would be charged for something they didn’t do but off themselves anyway?
You do realize he had a family right ?
Shame u cant find thebfull video. If u cant handle the video.... dont watch it. Dont report it like a liberal or democRAT.
He was innocent
No evidence at all for that claim. He was clearly guilty.
@@anlace3447 Guilt based systems are like that. Scapegoat seekers find scapegoats but they ain't the g.o.a.t. Later.
Ever hear of the sacred jester? Why. So. SEERIOUS, denial isn't a river in Egypt don't seer yourself lol
@@anlace3447 ik this is like hella late but his accuser literally admitted to lying in court.
@@sadmushroom3438 yes, he admitted lying when he said, at his own trial, that he NOT bribe Dwyer. Do you know there were two trials?
Well, this isn’t the _original_ broadcast