CITY HALL SLAYINGS (25 Years Later)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 26, 2003 | Carl Nolte

[Scenic Sounds]

When University of San Francisco Professor Peter Novak proposed to his students that they produce a series of events commemorating the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, he got a shock -- most of his students had not heard of Moscone or Milk.

[Scenic Sounds]

[Loyalist]

[Agnes Heep]

It's difficult to see exactly what gay issues had to do with the crime. Sounds to me like a severely disaffected person gone postal.

[Dante3]

Since both Mascone and Milk were Rev. Jim Jones' boys, a later THEORY somehow linked White and the killings to the late Rev. JJ.

[Johnny Gage]

"I put my finger to see if there was any pulse, and it went in a bullet hole in his chest"

Feinstein is an idiot. How do you check a pulse by putting a finger on someone's chest, let alone in a "bullet hole"

She sounds like Jesse hi-Jackson and his "MLK's blood" cry.

[Verginius Rufus]

A sad story all around. I think Dan White later committed suicide--at any rate, he died some time after completing his prison term. Moscone was a typical Democrat politician who really catered to the gays. There is a convention center in San Francisco now named after him.

[DumpsterDiver]

He ... can still see the smoke from the mayor's cigarette curling up. "It was awful," he said. "It was shock and panic. You don't know what you can do for him. You scream for the cops, which is what I did."

Smoking kills.

The city was rocked to its roots. "What a bizarre period," Feinstein said.

It's a bizarre city, Dianne.