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#Todayin #LGBTQ #History: November 27, #HarveyMilk and #SanFrancisco #Mayor #GeorgeMoscone are #fatally #shot by #former #CountySupervisor #DanWhite.
(White served five years for #manslaughter; he took his own #manslaughter in October 1985.)
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Homophobia #SayHisName #SayTheirNames
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Excerpt from the above mentioned LATimes article:
“In the last seconds of his life, #GeorgeMoscone poured a drink for his killer & prepared to give him a pep talk. There’s life after politics, he began telling #DanWhite. You have a family to worry about. It will all work out.
“The mayor had no way of knowing that the man standing before him carried a loaded Smith & Wesson .38 under his suit coat.
#DianneFeinstein
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-21-vw-59151-story.html -
It was the morning of Nov 27, 1978, & #DianneFeinstein, a future powerhouse of the US #Senate, had decided she was done w/ #politics. After 9yrs on the #SanFrancisco Board of Supervisors, 2 failed bids for mayor & the recent death of her husband from colon cancer, she wanted out.
Hours later, gunshots rang out in City Hall. A fmr supervisor, #DanWhite, had fatally shot Mayor #GeorgeMoscone & Supervisor #HarveyMilk, one of the first openly #gay elected officials in the #UnitedStates.