Pittsburgh here, watched it live when home from school. The little trap door on top of his head flapping open then closed. The instant, impossibly huge flood of blood. My mother losing it. My 14-yr old ass like no WAY that just happened on tv this cant be real.
In subreddit r/ThisDayInHistory
In a post titled:
On this day in 1987, Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shot and killed himself at a press conference on live national television, he had been implicated in bribery allegations and was due in court the next day. The footage is as gruesome as you'd expect.