In 1987, Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer held a news conference after being convicted of public corruption. He pulled a large pistol from a manila envelope, stuck the barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger — on live television.
I remember that from the first Traces Of Death video. A lot of Faces Of Death was fake as hell. There's a few other angles of the suicide floating around on the web, they're a little bit longer too.
