Documentary
Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer, a full-length feature documentary about Dwyer, premiered at the Carmel Art & Film Festival on October 9, 2010. The Dwyer family attended the premiere in Pennsylvania on November 10, 2010, in Harrisburg, where they participated in a Q&A session after each screening. In the film, William Smith (the witness whose testimony was critical to Dwyer's conviction) admitted he lied under oath to get a lighter sentence.
Smith's statements bolstered the opinion that the allegations against Dwyer were false and his conviction unjust. Smith's recanting also confirmed what Dwyer had said about himself at his final press conference, that he was an honest man, hence the film's title.
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