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TIL American politician R. Budd Dwyer committed suicide on live TV, shooting himself at a press conference on January 22nd 1987 the day before he was due to be sentenced, after being found guilty on 11 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, perjury, and interstate transportation in aid of racketeering

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