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Dan White (Harvey Milk Murder) Trial

1979

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White's Path
Through City Hall
Moscone's "Dear Dan" Letter
White's
Confession
     
    San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in the mayor’s office
     after the signing  of the city’s gay rights bill in April 1977.
Diminished Capacity
("Twinkie Defense")
Opening
Statements
Trial
Testimony
Jury
Instructions
The Dan White Trial: An Account
by  Douglas Linder  (c) 2011  
Dan White wanted his job back.  Days after resigning his position as one of San Francisco's eleven supervisors, he had second thoughts, and asked Mayor George Moscone to reappoint him.  When he learned the Mayor would not honor his request, White went to City Hall and gunned down both the mayor and San Francisco's first gay supervisor, Harvey Milk.  Few expected, in White's trial the following year, that the jury would not return a murder conviction...[CONTINUED]
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The People v.White (Cal.App.)(1981)
 Milk: Movie Starring Sean Penn
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