Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 22 minutes ago
Arriving in San Francisco during the mass migration of LGBT people to the Californian city in the 1970s, Harvey Milk became the first openly gay elected official in California's history when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. Within less than a year, Milk was assassinated along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone at the City Hall by a disgruntled fellow city supervisor, Dan White.
Please note that this program was made in 1993. In 1998, Frank Falzon, the homicide inspector with the San Francisco police to whom White had surrendered after the killings, said that he met with White in 1984, and that at this meeting White had confessed that he had intended to kill not only Moscone and Milk, but another supervisor, Carol Ruth Silver, as well as then-member of the California State Assembly and future San Francisco mayor Willie Brown. This also meant that, contrary to White's defense in the trial, the City Hall killings were premeditated.
This is a TV recording, and is thus missing about 3 minutes of footage.
Arriving in San Francisco during the mass migration of LGBT people to the Californian city in the 1970s, Harvey Milk became the first openly gay elected official in California's history when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. Within less than a year, Milk was assassinated along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone at the City Hall by a disgruntled fellow city supervisor, Dan White.
Please note that this program was made in 1993. In 1998, Frank Falzon, the homicide inspector with the San Francisco police to whom White had surrendered after the killings, said that he met with White in 1984, and that at this meeting White had confessed that he had intended to kill not only Moscone and Milk, but another supervisor, Carol Ruth Silver, as well as then-member of the California State Assembly and future San Francisco mayor Willie Brown. This also meant that, contrary to White's defense in the trial, the City Hall killings were premeditated.
This is a TV recording, and is thus missing about 3 minutes of footage.
