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The 1993 documentary movie Traces of Death made by Brain Damage Films includes full footage of Dwyer's suicide at the last segment of the movie. [117] The 2002 documentary movie Bowling for Columbine includes footage of Dwyer's suicide as part of a montage of gun-related video clips. [118] The 2006 movie Loren Cass shows footage of Dwyer's ...
The documentary features new interviews with Dwyer's family, friends, and colleagues. These interviews include Dwyer's widow Joanne (her last before her death in 2009) and William Trickett Smith. The film premiered on October 9, 2010 at the Carmel Art & Film Festival in Carmel, California, [1] where it received positive reviews. [2]
Terrorists, Killers and Middle-East Wackos (also Terrorists, Killers and Other Wackos in the UK) is a shockumentary video from the makers of Bumfights.It includes footage of riots, suicides, executions, and the televised suicide of R. Budd Dwyer.
Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer, a 2010 documentary film that chronicles the scandal that led to R. Budd Dwyer's public suicide Tom 'Honest Man' Coughlan (born 1881), an Irish hurler See also
Traces of Death is a 1993 American mondo film that consists of various scenes of stock footage depicting death and real scenes of violence.. Unlike the earlier Faces of Death which usually included fake deaths and reenactments, Traces consists mostly of actual footage depicting death and injury, and consists also of public domain footage from other films.
Dwyer case [ edit ] Muir presided over the trial of R. Budd Dwyer , the then Treasurer of Pennsylvania who was convicted in December 1986 of 11 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, perjury and interstate transportation in aid of racketeering; [ 2 ] Dwyer was scheduled to be sentenced by Muir on those charges on January 23, 1987. [ 3 ]
The song was written about the public suicide of Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Budd Dwyer on January 22, 1987, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Dwyer had been convicted of bribery charges in December 1986, and was expected to receive a lengthy sentence from U.S. District Court Judge Malcolm Muir .
In the PA house, he was billed as "Rep. R. Budd Dwyer" , and later as "Sen. R. Budd Dwyer" in the PA senate. Contemporary articles about his election as treasurer called him R. Budd Dwyer [4] . When he died, NYT AP Washington Post LA Times and the Inquirer all called him R. Budd Dwyer, and his grave reads "in memory of R. Budd Dwyer" .