What were you expecting. court transcripts? I was nearby in the Midland case, but still knew none of the principals. I had heard about the victim, he was notorious in the area but still did not deserve being shot.
The shooter of Milk’s identity is at least near common knowledge. Needless to say an Irish Catholic policeman would have never dreamed of working for a Jewish camera store in the notorious “gay district”.
The hand slapping is just on record for anyone to see. Huge riots broke out in SF when the verdict came out.
The man who shot Milk shot another, himself.
That better?
Mr. Dan White (the man who shot Harvey Milk) had indeed worked with him - as a City Supervisor. Mr. Milk also wasn’t the sole target, nor did it have anything to do with Mr. Milk’s sexual orientation. The two of them had worked closely together on several initiatives, but had grown apart following Mr. White’s opposition to a juvenile group home that would be operated by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd opening in his district. Mr. Milk strongly supported the opening of the home. Mr. White, faced with financial difficulties based on the low salary of City Supervisors and conflict with several other supervisors regarding what he saw as “corruption” within city politics, resigned his position as Supervisor on Nov. 10, 1978. His district, realizing that the mayor - whom they opposed - would appoint Mr. White’s replacement, raised funds to help Mr. White with his financial problems provided that he resumed his position as Supervisor. On Nov. 14, he withdrew his resignation. At this time, having initially agreed to reappoint Mr White, Mayor Moscone was successfully lobbied by Mr. Milk, Ms. Carol Silver (another City Supervisor), and Mr. Willie Brown (at that time a California assemblyman, later Mayor of San Francisco) to appoint Mr. Don Horanzy, a liberal Federal Housing official to Mr. White’s conservative district. With the chaos following the Jonestown incident, Mr. Horanzy’s appointment was delayed and scheduled to be formally announced on Nov. 27.
That was the date that Mr. White entered through a window of city hall - which several others working in that same building testified they did on a regular basis as well, using the windows as shortcuts to their offices - and proceeded first to Mayor Moscone’s office. When Mayor Moscone refused to reinstate Mr White as a supervisor, Mr. White shot him several times. Mr White then went back to his own office, meeting Mr. Milk on the way. At Mr. White’s request, Mr. Milk joined him in the office. Once the door was shut, Mr. White shot Mr. Milk and fled the scene.
This was a horrible crime, perpetrated by a disturbed man who saw political forces aligning against him in what he thought was a conspiracy. But to claim that Mr. Milk’s sexual orientation had anything to do with it is mistaken at best, and a deliberate untruth at worst.
