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To: PhiKapMom
Anyone out there remember THIS one?:

"The rest, as they say, is history: how Dan White took his .38 service revolver and extra bullets with him when he went to City Hall; how he climbed in a side window to avoid the metal detector; how he asked one more time for his job back; how he shot the Mayor twice in the chest and twice more in the head; how he reloaded his gun, slipped out of the mayor’s inner office by a side door, and roamed the hallways looking for Councilmember Harvey Milk; how he asked Harvey to see him for a moment; how he fired three shots into Harvey’s body and two more into the back of his head as he lay on the floor. How Diane Feinstein – then the president of the Board of Supervisors – announced in a voice that shook, “Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.” How the police cheered when the news broke. How Dan White called his wife to meet him in St. Mary’s Cathedral and then turned himself in to an old friend..."

417 posted on 07/23/2003 12:57:38 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Still think the Administration's BIG failure was not to dispense with N.Korea before Iraq!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
. . . turned himself in to an old friend...

it would have worked out better for him if he had turned himself into a helicopter.

dep

439 posted on 07/23/2003 1:02:09 PM PDT by dep (Ense Petit Placidam Sub Libertate Qvietem)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
"The rest, as they say, is history: how Dan White took his .38 service revolver and..."

I do... the Twinkie defense... Idiots in San Fran.

442 posted on 07/23/2003 1:02:17 PM PDT by bedolido (please let my post be on an even number... small even/odd phobia here)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
I saw the documentary on that. It was sad all the way around. Very very sad for all involved.
474 posted on 07/23/2003 1:11:58 PM PDT by mabelkitty
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