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Daniel James White (September 2, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was an American politician who assassinated George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, and Harvey Milk, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, inside City Hall on November 27, 1978.
Oct 22, 1985 · Dan White, the man convicted of shooting to death Mayor George Moscone of San Francisco and fellow Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978, committed suicide today, the police said.
Nov 26, 2018 · The troubled man who murdered Harvey Milk and George Moscone killed them over a petty grievance, not anti-gay bigotry. Forty years ago—November 27, 1978—Dan White assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk.
The Moscone–Milk assassinations and the trial of Dan White were lampooned by the Dead Kennedys with their re-written version of "I Fought the Law" which appeared in their 1987 compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.
November 27, 1978. After a sleepless night, Dan White enters City Hall through a lower story window and heads upstairs to the office of Mayor George Moscone. White shoots and kills Moscone, then heads for Milk's office, where he kills him. Milk dies at 10:55 A.M. White surrenders to police.
May 21, 2022 · SF's 'White Night': How the conviction of Dan White for the murders of Harvey Milk and George Moscone led to violence
Jun 5, 2023 · Dan White, who assassinated Harvey Milk, the first LGBTQ person elected San Francisco city supervisor, was convicted of manslaughter and not murder. People took to the streets to protest.
Voters in District 8 chose as their new supervisor Daniel White, a Roman Catholic socially conservative former police officer and fire fighter. As Randy Shilts noted in his biography of Milk, The Mayor of Castro Street, "the media like quick, easy juxtapositions," and so Harvey Milk and Dan White found themselves paired together on a number of ...
Mar 22, 2023 · However, the film omits a crucial detail about Dan White. Ray Sloan, White's chief political adviser and campaign manager was (and is) a gay man.
Oct 23, 1985 · Friends and acquaintances interviewed Tuesday in the aftermath of White’s suicide said he was haunted less by guilt over the killings he committed than by fear of retaliation for them. The last...
