By Mike Weiss
After assassinating San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and manager Harvey Milk, killer Dan White was once given just a gentle sentence for manslaughter. This actual crime mystery explains why White killed the 2 politicians, and the way he acquired away with homicide. This new accelerated version unearths for the 1st time how after his unlock from felony White confessed his precise murderous purpose and his mystery plan to kill extra politicians. A better half DVD presents unseen tv interviews and the never-before-available recording of White's gut-wrenching confession.
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His opponent in the Democratic primary was the protege of Senator Eugene McAteer, the Irish boss, and the contest took on the symbolic aura of a showdown over the future of the city. George figured to run well in the poorer and polychromatic neighborhoods to the east of Twin Peaks. But more of the city’s voting population lived in the miles of near-identical single family homes erected on landfill piled on top of sand dunes that stretched west to the ocean on both sides of Golden Gate Park. The Avenues these neighborhoods were called, and they were home to San Francisco’s comfortable masses.
Scherr, co-counsel for Dan White: “Mike Weiss has pulled off his own double play, vividly describing the political and personal background of the San Francisco City Hall killings, and then perceptively analyzing the murder trial that followed. ” San Francisco Sheriff Mike Hennessey: “I can’t tell you how many copies of this book I bought just to give to friends who I want to understand this time in San Francisco history. I was in City Hall the day of the murders; I was in the marches and at City Hall the night of the riot.
Officer Paul Chignell searched White’s pockets, finding some live and expended cartridges, and then put him on the bench to wait for the homicide inspectors who had been called when White turned himself in less than an hour after the killings. They waited in a room where White had sat often before when he had been a policeman assigned to Northern Station and then, later, when he had come by to visit. The room smelled of stale sweat and fright and disinfectant. Some of the policemen who spent a good part of their lives in that room and others like it turned inward and cynical after seeing so much pain and despair and corruption.
