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As president
of the board of supervisors...
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it's my duty
to make this announcement.
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Both Mayor Moscone
and Supervisor Harvey Milk...
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have been shot and killed.
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No! Jesus Christ!
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The...
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- Hold it!
- Hold it!
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- Shh!
- Quiet!
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Quiet, everybody!
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The suspect
is Supervisor Dan White.
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On November 27, 1978...
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San Francisco's
Mayor George Moscone...
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and Supervisor Harvey Milk...
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were assassinated in City Hall.
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Harvey Milk had served only 11 months
on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors...
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but he had already come to represent
something far greater than his office.
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A year before
he was gunned down...
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Harvey Milk tape-recorded a will.
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This is to be played only in the event...
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of my death by assassination.
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I fully realize that...
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a person who stands
for what I stand for...
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an activist, gay activist...
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becomes the target
or the potential target...
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for somebody who is
insecure, terrified, afraid...
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or very disturbed themselves.
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Knowing that I could be assassinated
at any moment or any time...
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I feel it's important that
some people know my thoughts.
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I stood for more
than just a candidate.
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I have never considered
myself a candidate.
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I have always
considered myself...
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part of a movement,
part of a candidacy.
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I wish I had time
to explain everything I did.
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Almost everything was done
in the eyes of the gay movement.
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I met Harvey like most people
met Harvey, I think... in his camera store.
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Um, I'd been living in the city
about a year and a half, I guess, and...
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maybe not even that long...
and went into the camera store...
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someone recommended it...
to have my film developed...
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and was greeted
by this raving maniac.
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He was screaming and...
I don't even know what the issue was...
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but he was screaming and shouting
at someone in the camera store...
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and I... I was
a little intimidated, you know.
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I thought,
"This guy is a little too weird for me."
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When I really
got to know him was in '75.
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I had a miscarriage...
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and I was astounded
that... that I'd had...
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'75 or '76 I had a miscarriage,
and I was astounded.
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I mean, it's a... it's a devastating
physical experience...
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as well as a mental experience.
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And I was home
from the hospital, and, uh...
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Harvey had heard
that this had happened.
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And lo and behold,
there was a knock at the door...
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and I went sort of like
floating to the door...
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'cause I wasn't
feeling well at all...
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and he was standing
on my doorstep...
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with a dozen roses...
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and he said,
"Can I get you anything?
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Do you have enough food in the house?
Do you have milk?
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Do you have food?
I'll do your grocery shopping."
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And I knew him by name,
as he knew me...
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but I didn't know him well enough
to have him do my grocery shopping.
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But that's
the kind of concern he was.
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You know, you could relate
to Harvey on many levels.
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One level was his sense of humor,
which I liked, you know.
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And you know, making fun of things
that sometimes were very heavy...
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which was how I was brought up.
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But also I didn't feel
like an outsider with Harvey.
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I felt like someone of worth,
you know...
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and, uh, some respect...
the teacher thing.
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And if I was in fact feminine,
or if I was in fact, you know...
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didn't always speak in a certain syntax,
or if I said, you know...
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"Fuck that asshole over there.
He's really a jerk"...
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Harvey didn't go,
"You know, this is not a good gay image."
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So that meant a lot...
the human factor.
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At first, Harvey Bernard Milk...
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showed few signs
he would make history.
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Born May 22, 1930...
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the second son
of middle-class Jewish parents...
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he grew up
in Woodmere, Long Island.
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The little kid with the big ears
became, in high school...
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an ordinary student,
a practical joker, and a regular guy.
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Or so his friends thought.
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After college
he joined the navy.
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Then he began a career
as a stock analyst on Wall Street.
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What was not on the resume...
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was his homosexuality...
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which Harvey Milk
had known about since he was 14.
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In the 1960s,
Harvey Milk took a step off course.
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He befriended
avant-garde theater people...
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then worked his way
into a producing job on Broadway.
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By the beginning of the '70s...
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Harvey Milk had marched
in antiwar demonstrations...
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burned his BankAmericard
in protest...
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and emigrated to San Francisco.
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He and lover Scott Smith
settled down...
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and opened a camera store
on Castro Street...
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in a quiet old neighborhood
soon to become known as "the Castro."
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Harvey Milk threw himself
into neighborhood politics.
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When he dubbed himself "the Mayor
of Castro Street," the idea stuck.
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In 1973
he tried to make it official...
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by running for the board of supervisors,
San Francisco's city council.
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To many, Harvey Milk seemed
more like a joke than a candidate.
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Well, first time
I heard of Harvey...
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was uh... one of these, uh...
conventions at the Labor Council...
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and, uh, we're voting
on who we're going to support.
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And our union... We get together
with other union delegates...
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and talk over who we're
gonna support, and, uh...
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we supported a guy that I didn't know
at that time: Harvey Milk.
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And, uh, we're talkin'
with the people, and, uh...
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somebody said,
"He's... He's gay."
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And I thought, "Holy Christ!
How are we gonna go back to our union...
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and go back to where we work
and tell guys that we supported a fruit?"
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And I thought,
"My God, this is...
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What's labor comin' to?"
you know?
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And then we found out that, uh...
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he got Coors Beer out of all
of the gay bars in San Francisco.
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And this Coors Beer boycott...
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which labor's been trying to do
throughout the United States...
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especially in San Francisco,
a labor town...
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uh, really hadn't been
too successful.
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You know, I met Harvey
for the first time...
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I mean, I had read about him
and had heard a lot about him...
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but that was the first time
I really met him.
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And it was a rather
strange meeting, because...
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Harvey was talking
about all these visionary things...
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about, you know,
the oneness of man, and, um...
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thinking about all the great things
that needed to be done...
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not only in San Francisco,
but throughout the country.
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And I said to myself...
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"Gee, this man
is never going to make it."
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Between 1973 and 1976...
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Harvey Milk
ran for political office...
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and lost three times.
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But in each race he garnered
more and more votes...
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enough to establish himself
as a broker for his neighborhood...
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and the growing gay community.
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In 1975, neighborhood activists
like Harvey Milk...
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found a strong supporter
in their new mayor, George Moscone.
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Moscone had campaigned
on the conviction...
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that a city is enriched
by more than downtown development.
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...to make our city work once again.
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As the new mayor,
Moscone showed respect...
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for his city's many neighborhoods,
cultures, and peoples.
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My late father
was a guard at San Quentin...
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and who I was visiting one day
and who showed to me...
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and then explained the function
of the, the death chamber.
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And it just seemed inconceivable to me,
though I was pretty young at the time...
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that in this society
that I had been trained to believe...
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was the most effective
and efficient of all societies...
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that the only way
we could deal with violent crime...
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would be to do
the ultimate ourselves...
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and that's to governmentally sanction
the taking of another person's life.
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Moscone and his allies,
including Harvey Milk...
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set about designing a plan...
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for neighborhood people
to run the city they lived in.
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The plan,
called "district elections"...
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would allow candidates for supervisor,
such as Harvey Milk...
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to run from districts
rather than the city at large.
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They had this crazy idea that they're gonna
change the form of government...
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the way we elect
our, uh, officials in this town.
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There was one meeting,
it was supposed to be...
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behind this guy
Harvey Milk's camera store.
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And so I went to the meeting,
and I kinda thought...
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"What the hell am I doin' here
with all these fruits and kooks?"
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Behind the camera store...
a little crummy camera store.
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It was nothing like Brooks.
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It was a little crummy camera store, and
in the back was this little crummy room...
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with a bunch of worn-out
old sofas and chairs...
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and a bunch of people
in jeans and Levi's, and, uh...
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Harvey Milk was there,
and, uh, he's not...
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He doesn't dress
in a distinguished manner.
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He's, uh... Just looks
like any workin' stiff.
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But the way he handled
the people there...
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Some of the people
get kind of emotional...
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and, uh... outrageous...
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and he would control 'em
and calm 'em down...
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and get the thinkin'
going a certain way, and, uh...
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It was very, very impressive.
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The voters of San Francisco decided...
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to give the district elections
plan a try.
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In the Castro, a new kind
of politics was taking shape.
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More and more men and women
were arriving in San Francisco every day...
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to take up the gay life.
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The Castro was booming.
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Each summer, Harvey Milk helped
organize the Castro Street Fair...
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where the neighborhood
celebrated its very existence.
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When we're out there
dancing on the floor, darlin'
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And I feel like I need some more
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And I feel your body close to mine
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And I know, my love
it's about that time
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Make me feel mighty real
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Make me feel mighty real
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You make me feel
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Mighty real
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You make me feel
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Mighty real
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When we get home, darling
and it's nice and dark
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And the music's spinning
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Harvey Milk realized that the Castro...
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was ready to elect
its own representative to city hall.
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In 1977, Milk launched
his fourth political campaign...
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this time
for the board of supervisors...
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from the newly created District 5.
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Oh, you make me feel
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Mighty real
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You make me feel
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There's just too many candidates,
the vote is split all over the place...
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and there's too many things
happening nobody knows about.
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There are at least seven candidates
with a shot at capturing...
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the heart of the city,
District No. 5.
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The liberal vote is split between three
main candidates and many lesser ones.
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One main is Terence Hallinan...
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an attorney with endorsements
from Democrats and labor.
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Hallinan splits the liberal vote
with two gays:
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lawyer Rick Stokes...
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and Castro Street businessman
Harvey Milk.
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I think when it comes to a matter of who
came first, that's fairly easily provable.
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I don't think anyone ever heard of Harvey
Milk until he ran for office in 1973.
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Any single neighborhood issue
or city issue for the last five years...
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you found Harvey Milk taking a stand...
one way or the other, but taking a stand.
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Every candidate claims to know of polls...
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showing him the winner
or running strong...
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but the one candidate who seems
to run best of all has very low visibility.
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That's the one
named "undecided."
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In San Francisco, Linda Schacht
for Channel 5 Eyewitness News.
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When he decided to run
for supervisor, he did call me...
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and I went in to meet with him...
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and we just hit it off instantly.
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That very first day, he asked me
if I would run his campaign.
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I was 23.
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Here's this punk kid who knows
nothing about campaigns...
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except that I loved them.
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What he offered me
was an opportunity.
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He had no money.
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But he was a very
difficult person to work with.
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He did have temper fits...
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where he would just be
like a little kid sometimes...
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for no good reason except that
he was probably exhausted.
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Getting involved in that campaign
was so special...
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especially after the number
of campaigns that I had been through...
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with the Democratic Party...
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and the normal type of politicians
and the normal kind of campaigns.
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That campaign
was anything but normal!
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One day I was in there
in the campaign headquarters...
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and I'm looking around
at this motley group of people.
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It was a lot of fun,
but give me a break!
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And I said to Harvey, I said,
"Well, who's that?"
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And there's this desk
over in the corner. It's really dark.
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I don't think there's a plug back
in that corner. There's a telephone.
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I remember seeing
the lights on the telephone...
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was like the brightest thing
in that corner.
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And he says,
"She's really good.
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Her name is Anne Kronenberg.
She's really good."
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And I'm looking at her and thinking,
"Oh, my Lord! Your image!"
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Here he's trying to run,
you know, in a very big district.
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He'd run in our neighborhood,
and anything goes in our neighborhood.
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But when you get out, you know,
you kind of have to kind of blend in.
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And I looked at Anne,
and here she was, you know...
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like a big dyke,
with the motorcycle clothes on.
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And then there's John
with his three-piece suit...
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and there's little Mike...
Michael Wong...
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who Harvey always called
his lotus blossom...
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and a couple of old ladies that would be
in there too, bless their hearts.
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And then people silk-screening
on the side...
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and you could smell the ink
and, you know, all this hubbub.
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And he's trying to run
a business in the front.
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Everything happened
in this long, dingy camera store...
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everything from "save the whales"
to "get elected."
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We had volunteers...
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in all different shapes and sizes...
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from Medora Payne-size...
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00:16:59,895 --> 00:17:02,438
up to 70-year-old women
who wanted to be doing something.
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Maybe they couldn't be walking precincts,
but they wanted to do something for Harvey.
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It was a nice mix of people.
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He never stopped,
and he did most of everything himself...
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which meant, you know, every day
he was out on the street...
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to hit the morning rush hour
and the afternoon rush hour.
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He'd walk precincts. He'd go to shops,
you know, door-to-door.
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At the age of 47,
on his fourth try for public office...
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Harvey Milk was elected
to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors.
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When Harvey got back to the campaign
headquarters that night...
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people went crazy.
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00:17:54,366 --> 00:17:58,827
He rode up on his...
Not his motorcycle, my motorcycle.
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They all got off the bikes then...
285
00:18:01,790 --> 00:18:04,291
and Harvey
was just encircled with people.
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I mean, the feeling there
was just one of such total joy.
287
00:18:08,171 --> 00:18:11,757
And it was more than just,
you know, a candidate winning.
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00:18:11,841 --> 00:18:16,845
It was the fact that all of these lesbians
and gay men throughout San Francisco...
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00:18:16,930 --> 00:18:19,723
who had felt like they'd had
no voice before...
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now had someone
who represented them.
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00:18:22,602 --> 00:18:25,062
You just feel so good for Milk...
292
00:18:25,146 --> 00:18:28,274
but feeling good for Milk,
you were feeling good for yourself.
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00:18:28,358 --> 00:18:31,819
You know, this was elation.
Just absolute elation.
294
00:18:31,903 --> 00:18:34,071
Harvey never ever drank...
295
00:18:34,155 --> 00:18:36,865
but that night
the champagne was flowing freely...
296
00:18:36,950 --> 00:18:39,827
and he picked up one bottle
and poured it all over himself.
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00:18:39,911 --> 00:18:41,787
It was incredible.
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00:18:41,871 --> 00:18:44,039
We can hear it.
We can't really see too much...
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00:18:44,124 --> 00:18:47,543
but it looks and sounds to you
and to me like New Year's Eve...
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00:18:47,627 --> 00:18:50,045
on Market Street,
a place called Alfie's.
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00:18:50,130 --> 00:18:52,172
And the reason
for all this merriment...
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00:18:52,257 --> 00:18:54,300
and gaiety,
if you'll pardon the pun...
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00:18:54,384 --> 00:18:56,135
is the man standing to my right...
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00:18:56,219 --> 00:18:58,804
the first gay supervisor
elected in San Francisco.
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00:18:58,888 --> 00:19:00,931
His name is Harvey Milk.
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00:19:01,016 --> 00:19:03,058
First of all, congratulations...
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00:19:03,143 --> 00:19:04,810
and I've never seen
anything like this, Harvey.
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00:19:04,894 --> 00:19:06,937
Oh, it's all over the city tonight.
309
00:19:07,022 --> 00:19:09,189
What does this mean,
your election, your activity now...
310
00:19:09,274 --> 00:19:11,317
on the board of supervisors
in San Francisco?
311
00:19:11,401 --> 00:19:13,652
Does that mean,
as many straights are concerned...
312
00:19:13,737 --> 00:19:15,946
that maybe the gays
are taking over San Francisco?
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00:19:16,031 --> 00:19:18,198
Are you going to be
a supervisor for all the people?
314
00:19:18,283 --> 00:19:20,284
I have to be.
That's what I was elected for.
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00:19:20,368 --> 00:19:22,745
I have to be there
to open up for the dialogue...
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00:19:22,829 --> 00:19:25,581
for the sensitivities of all people,
with all their problems.
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00:19:25,665 --> 00:19:28,375
The problems that affect
this city affect all of us.
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00:19:28,460 --> 00:19:31,795
It was really a "monumentous" occasion.
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00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:35,924
You know, he had been waiting at that
point for four years for that victory...
320
00:19:36,009 --> 00:19:38,177
and I think it was
very sweet for all of us.
321
00:19:38,261 --> 00:19:40,304
Thank you, San Francisco.
322
00:19:40,388 --> 00:19:42,389
All right!
323
00:19:49,522 --> 00:19:52,066
I first met Harvey Milk
when I was sent to do a story...
324
00:19:52,150 --> 00:19:54,777
on this guy out in the Castro
who had a camera store...
325
00:19:54,861 --> 00:19:56,904
who was running for supervisor...
326
00:19:56,988 --> 00:19:59,031
and he was getting
a lot of attention...
327
00:19:59,115 --> 00:20:01,325
so I had to go out there
and do an interview with him.
328
00:20:01,409 --> 00:20:04,161
And I thought, "Oh, brother.
A guy who owns a camera store?
329
00:20:04,245 --> 00:20:08,374
What could he know
about politics or anything?"
330
00:20:08,458 --> 00:20:11,210
I knew he was going
to be a dud.
331
00:20:11,294 --> 00:20:14,546
But I got out there,
and he was full of life.
332
00:20:14,631 --> 00:20:16,673
He was a great speaker.
333
00:20:16,758 --> 00:20:20,552
And I was impressed on the spot,
and it made a good story.
334
00:20:21,721 --> 00:20:25,766
It's as if he knew. "You came here
with an attitude that I was just...
335
00:20:25,850 --> 00:20:29,436
a homosexual with a camera store,
and I'll show you!"
336
00:20:29,729 --> 00:20:31,855
And I thought he did, you know.
337
00:20:31,940 --> 00:20:35,734
He was much more impressive
than just that kind of image.
338
00:20:35,819 --> 00:20:38,487
This will be the first time
in many years that we've seen...
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00:20:38,571 --> 00:20:42,574
so many relatively new faces
on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
340
00:20:42,659 --> 00:20:45,494
And this is probably because
it's the first time in a long time...
341
00:20:45,578 --> 00:20:49,331
that supervisors have been elected
by district instead of citywide.
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00:20:49,416 --> 00:20:51,667
Harvey Milk, a homosexual...
343
00:20:51,751 --> 00:20:55,421
the first avowed women's rights
advocate, Carol Ruth Silver...
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00:20:55,505 --> 00:20:58,632
the first Chinese-American,
attorney Gordon Lau...
345
00:20:58,716 --> 00:21:01,510
the first black woman,
Ella Hill Hutch...
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00:21:01,594 --> 00:21:05,681
and Dan White, a city fireman
who gave up his job to take his seat.
347
00:21:05,765 --> 00:21:08,976
After the formal swearing-in ceremony,
the board elected...
348
00:21:09,060 --> 00:21:11,687
Dianne Feinstein
to be its new president.
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00:21:11,771 --> 00:21:15,357
In a 6-to-5 vote,
Feinstein beat out Gordon Lau.
350
00:21:15,442 --> 00:21:19,069
But then we got
the first taste of the new politics.
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00:21:19,154 --> 00:21:23,615
Someone suggested the board vote again
to make it unanimous for Feinstein...
352
00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:25,742
but newcomers
Milk and Silver refused.
353
00:21:25,827 --> 00:21:29,371
They stuck to their votes for Lau,
to cheers from their supporters.
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00:21:29,456 --> 00:21:33,375
And just about everyone at City Hall
today was agreeing on one thing:
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00:21:33,460 --> 00:21:37,421
They may be a lot of things,
but they probably won't be dull.
356
00:21:38,465 --> 00:21:41,425
It was interesting to see that Harvey...
357
00:21:41,509 --> 00:21:44,761
did not vote for Dianne Feinstein
to be president...
358
00:21:44,846 --> 00:21:48,307
and it really shocked many of us
in the audience, because...
359
00:21:48,391 --> 00:21:52,269
We said, "Wow!
Here was this gay supervisor...
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00:21:52,353 --> 00:21:54,563
who really didn't have to do it...
361
00:21:54,647 --> 00:21:57,232
and maybe even might be
committing political suicide...
362
00:21:57,317 --> 00:22:01,069
and yet he was standing up
for what he believed...
363
00:22:01,154 --> 00:22:04,323
and making
a very strong statement."
364
00:22:05,408 --> 00:22:10,078
And it was clear what Harvey Milk
represented on that board.
365
00:22:10,163 --> 00:22:12,164
He represented change.
He was different.
366
00:22:12,248 --> 00:22:16,668
He was different from the conservative
majority on the board of supervisors.
367
00:22:16,753 --> 00:22:18,754
Lost in the hubbub...
368
00:22:18,838 --> 00:22:22,591
over the rise of California's
first publicly gay official...
369
00:22:22,675 --> 00:22:24,927
was the election of Dan White...
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00:22:25,011 --> 00:22:28,347
another kind
of neighborhood populist.
371
00:22:28,431 --> 00:22:32,017
Dan White has worked
and lived virtually all his 31 years...
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00:22:32,101 --> 00:22:34,811
in this southeastern section
of San Francisco.
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00:22:34,896 --> 00:22:37,439
The neighborhood problems
are the city's problems.
374
00:22:37,524 --> 00:22:39,816
You see, the transportation,
the crime...
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00:22:39,901 --> 00:22:41,944
the education, the taxes...
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00:22:42,028 --> 00:22:47,241
these are problems that we're all
gonna have to, uh, solve.
377
00:22:47,325 --> 00:22:49,284
Hello, Anne.
Come on out here and...
378
00:22:49,369 --> 00:22:51,453
- Come out and say hello!
- No, I don't want to...
379
00:22:51,538 --> 00:22:55,332
Dan White comes across as the kind of
son almost any mother would be proud of.
380
00:22:57,544 --> 00:23:00,128
Anne was one of my big,
big supporters here.
381
00:23:00,213 --> 00:23:03,423
A lot of the ladies here
are getting their hair done.
382
00:23:03,508 --> 00:23:05,551
Clean-cut, respectful to his elders...
383
00:23:05,635 --> 00:23:08,136
and seemingly possessed
of small-town values.
384
00:23:08,221 --> 00:23:10,639
When was the last time
you heard a San Francisco politician...
385
00:23:10,723 --> 00:23:13,684
talk about setting up
neighborhood athletic teams?
386
00:23:13,768 --> 00:23:16,061
And then, when we get the best team...
387
00:23:16,145 --> 00:23:18,855
we will challenge, say, Harvey Milk's
district to a game of softball...
388
00:23:18,940 --> 00:23:20,983
where they have
champs out there.
389
00:23:21,067 --> 00:23:23,151
In a sense you could say
it's old-fashioned...
390
00:23:23,236 --> 00:23:25,195
but it's old-fashioned values
that built this country.
391
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,907
To me,
this is what society's all about.
392
00:23:28,992 --> 00:23:31,618
If you see someone in trouble,
you go to help 'em out.
393
00:23:31,703 --> 00:23:36,748
Dan White says nobody's gonna
ignore his corner of the city anymore.
394
00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:39,543
Dan White and Harvey Milk...
395
00:23:39,627 --> 00:23:42,838
became symbols
of the new district election system.
396
00:23:42,922 --> 00:23:46,133
Dan White, a fireman
and native San Franciscan...
397
00:23:46,217 --> 00:23:50,304
Harvey Milk, a small businessman
and a gay immigrant.
398
00:23:50,388 --> 00:23:54,141
Milk's victory sparked euphoria
among his supporters...
399
00:23:54,225 --> 00:23:59,021
and a sense of something new
arriving at City Hall.
400
00:24:00,481 --> 00:24:03,650
He wanted to meet Carter,
and he thought that was very important.
401
00:24:03,735 --> 00:24:05,777
And I think he even brought
a photographer along...
402
00:24:05,862 --> 00:24:08,947
even though Carter didn't want to be
photographed with a gay person.
403
00:24:11,159 --> 00:24:14,369
And Ruth Carter Stapleton was...
404
00:24:14,454 --> 00:24:17,205
you know,
the evangel... evangelical sister...
405
00:24:17,290 --> 00:24:19,583
was carrying on
a mission on gays.
406
00:24:19,667 --> 00:24:22,753
She told Harvey
that she could convert him...
407
00:24:22,837 --> 00:24:26,590
and that, even though he was Jewish,
if he gave himself to Jesus Christ...
408
00:24:26,674 --> 00:24:29,676
that his homosexuality
would disappear or something.
409
00:24:29,761 --> 00:24:32,387
And he made a couple
of very wry comments...
410
00:24:32,472 --> 00:24:34,514
and one of them was that...
411
00:24:34,599 --> 00:24:38,060
I think they shook hands, and he said,
"I'm surprised you shook my hand."
412
00:24:38,144 --> 00:24:39,936
And she said, "Why?"
413
00:24:40,021 --> 00:24:42,731
And he said, "Because you never know
where my hand's been."
414
00:24:42,815 --> 00:24:45,901
Isn't that awful?
Well, she just looked at him.
415
00:24:45,985 --> 00:24:49,571
She was just starstruck.
I mean, what could she say?
416
00:24:49,656 --> 00:24:52,908
Before Harvey was elected,
I can remember...
417
00:24:52,992 --> 00:24:56,870
looking at City Hall
and feeling like that was not my place.
418
00:24:56,954 --> 00:24:59,039
I didn't belong there.
I wasn't welcome there.
419
00:24:59,123 --> 00:25:01,833
I didn't feel comfortable there.
420
00:25:01,918 --> 00:25:03,960
And the people
on the board of supervisors...
421
00:25:04,045 --> 00:25:06,088
were names you read about
in the newspaper...
422
00:25:06,172 --> 00:25:08,298
not people you would expect
to see in the grocery store...
423
00:25:08,383 --> 00:25:13,011
or much less have a conversation with
on a personal or a human level.
424
00:25:13,096 --> 00:25:15,806
And Harvey was really
a part of changing all that.
425
00:25:15,890 --> 00:25:17,432
We're interviewing Harvey Milk.
426
00:25:18,017 --> 00:25:21,812
What's it like being
a so-called in-person...
427
00:25:21,896 --> 00:25:25,482
as opposed to having been
an out-person for years?
428
00:25:25,566 --> 00:25:27,943
- Being one of them?
- Yes.
429
00:25:28,027 --> 00:25:30,987
Um... incredible.
430
00:25:31,072 --> 00:25:33,323
The, uh, establishment...
431
00:25:33,408 --> 00:25:39,037
the white power establishment,
non-gay, very wealthy establishment...
432
00:25:39,122 --> 00:25:41,415
have to deal with me.
433
00:25:41,499 --> 00:25:43,667
It's an incredible position.
434
00:25:43,751 --> 00:25:47,879
- Excuse me. Cut!
- Careful.
435
00:25:47,964 --> 00:25:50,215
I have a slight cold.
436
00:25:55,054 --> 00:25:58,390
- Take two. Wanna repeat that, please?
- Okay, sure.
437
00:25:58,683 --> 00:26:01,435
Go.
438
00:26:01,519 --> 00:26:03,729
In San Francisco,
as in anyplace else...
439
00:26:03,813 --> 00:26:05,856
you have the blacks
and browns fighting...
440
00:26:05,940 --> 00:26:08,358
and you have the Filipinos
not talking to the Asians...
441
00:26:08,443 --> 00:26:10,527
and they all hate the gays,
and so forth.
442
00:26:10,611 --> 00:26:13,029
And that has existed,
and we've had...
443
00:26:13,114 --> 00:26:15,699
We over the years have fought
for the crumb.
444
00:26:15,783 --> 00:26:18,326
But I think because of the election,
district elections...
445
00:26:18,411 --> 00:26:21,621
and this particular board,
and myself, uh...
446
00:26:21,706 --> 00:26:23,957
we're overcoming
a lot of those problems.
447
00:26:24,041 --> 00:26:26,334
There's tremendous
harmony developing.
448
00:26:26,419 --> 00:26:28,462
It's not perfect, by any means.
449
00:26:28,546 --> 00:26:30,630
On the citywide level,
I think it's vital...
450
00:26:30,715 --> 00:26:32,758
that the minorities...
451
00:26:32,842 --> 00:26:35,302
the traditional,
ethnic minorities...
452
00:26:35,386 --> 00:26:40,348
and the gays
and the feminists link together.
453
00:26:40,433 --> 00:26:42,559
And possibly
the rank-and-file union...
454
00:26:42,643 --> 00:26:44,853
not the union leaders,
the rank-and-file...
455
00:26:44,937 --> 00:26:49,775
link together to form
a very solid, strong coalition...
456
00:26:49,859 --> 00:26:54,237
so that we can influence
the total direction of the city.
457
00:26:54,322 --> 00:26:57,574
As supervisor,
Harvey Milk had the political skills...
458
00:26:57,658 --> 00:27:01,077
to advance the issues
that neighborhood people cared about:
459
00:27:01,162 --> 00:27:04,790
rent control,
limiting high-rise development...
460
00:27:04,874 --> 00:27:08,460
public transportation,
and the rights of senior citizens.
461
00:27:08,544 --> 00:27:11,713
And the biggest crime
in this city is the fact...
462
00:27:11,798 --> 00:27:14,382
that there's some
government elected officials...
463
00:27:14,467 --> 00:27:16,968
who don't care
about senior citizens.
464
00:27:17,053 --> 00:27:19,095
And I got news for them:
465
00:27:19,180 --> 00:27:23,475
They're gonna grow old to be a senior
citizen themselves or drop dead.
466
00:27:24,435 --> 00:27:26,478
Maybe I like Harvey
because almost everything...
467
00:27:26,562 --> 00:27:29,773
Anytime he'd make a speech
about anything, I agreed with him.
468
00:27:29,857 --> 00:27:31,900
So then I thought
he was a great man...
469
00:27:31,984 --> 00:27:34,152
because I agreed
with what he talked about.
470
00:27:34,237 --> 00:27:36,988
But you could hear
where he was coming from.
471
00:27:37,073 --> 00:27:39,825
He was coming
from people positions.
472
00:27:39,909 --> 00:27:41,952
If it had to do with parks...
473
00:27:42,036 --> 00:27:45,831
or it had to do with schools,
or it had to do with police protection...
474
00:27:45,915 --> 00:27:50,961
anything that affected
the little people.
475
00:27:51,045 --> 00:27:53,839
He wasn't only for gay rights.
476
00:27:53,923 --> 00:27:57,592
He was for gay rights
because that was... that is a minority.
477
00:27:57,677 --> 00:27:59,886
But there's other minorities.
478
00:27:59,971 --> 00:28:02,222
There's handicapped people.
There's senior citizens.
479
00:28:02,306 --> 00:28:04,933
And so, uh,
there's more and more.
480
00:28:05,017 --> 00:28:09,229
You start listening to him
and getting involved with him...
481
00:28:09,313 --> 00:28:12,816
'cause, gee, this is the kind of guy
that is gonna talk about you.
482
00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:16,653
Harvey said
that if anyone solved...
483
00:28:16,737 --> 00:28:18,780
the dog shit problem
in this city...
484
00:28:18,865 --> 00:28:20,949
that they could be elected mayor.
485
00:28:21,033 --> 00:28:23,869
And so he started,
in the first month of being in City Hall...
486
00:28:23,953 --> 00:28:27,581
to come up with some kind of ordinance
to take care of dog shit.
487
00:28:27,665 --> 00:28:30,917
And he knew that
the pooper-scooper ordinance...
488
00:28:31,002 --> 00:28:33,837
along with a few other things,
would really give him good press.
489
00:28:33,921 --> 00:28:36,798
He was a master
at figuring out...
490
00:28:36,883 --> 00:28:39,718
what would get him
covered in the newspaper.
491
00:28:39,802 --> 00:28:43,805
And so the day of his press conference
for the pooper-scooper ordinance...
492
00:28:43,890 --> 00:28:48,226
he went out early
and planted some shit on the lawn...
493
00:28:48,311 --> 00:28:50,395
so that after
his press conference he knew...
494
00:28:50,479 --> 00:28:53,315
just where he was gonna stand
that he would step in it.
495
00:28:53,399 --> 00:28:55,817
Supervisor Milk took to the grassy lawn...
496
00:28:55,902 --> 00:28:58,695
at Duboce Park this afternoon
to publicize the new law.
497
00:28:58,779 --> 00:29:02,073
Under the ordinance, dog lovers
who don't clean up can be fined.
498
00:29:02,158 --> 00:29:05,118
I think what needs to happen
is what happened in New York:
499
00:29:05,202 --> 00:29:08,413
that people use their own ingenuity,
their own ideas, their own concepts.
500
00:29:08,497 --> 00:29:10,540
Some people are using
their pie tins...
501
00:29:10,625 --> 00:29:13,126
some people are using
The Wall Street Journal...
502
00:29:13,210 --> 00:29:16,212
and other people are using
doggie-doo's and shovels.
503
00:29:16,297 --> 00:29:18,506
Milk put his foot down
to emphasize that the city...
504
00:29:18,591 --> 00:29:21,343
intends to enforce,
and you guessed it...
505
00:29:21,427 --> 00:29:25,055
In Supervisor Milk's words,
"This really is the bottom line."
506
00:29:25,139 --> 00:29:29,309
Harvey Milk's stand
on which voting machine...
507
00:29:29,393 --> 00:29:33,271
the city should purchase
was a critical role.
508
00:29:33,356 --> 00:29:37,150
At that time, George Moscone
favored Votomatic...
509
00:29:37,234 --> 00:29:40,362
and Harvey
really was quite vocal.
510
00:29:40,446 --> 00:29:43,198
And he said the city should go
with Votomatic...
511
00:29:43,282 --> 00:29:45,909
because
non-English-speaking citizens...
512
00:29:45,993 --> 00:29:49,871
particularly those who are elderly,
who have experienced discrimination...
513
00:29:49,956 --> 00:29:53,833
can exercise their right to vote
in the most accessible manner.
514
00:29:53,918 --> 00:29:57,420
He locked heads
with Quentin Kopp...
515
00:29:57,505 --> 00:30:00,465
and Dianne Feinstein
over the issue.
516
00:30:00,549 --> 00:30:02,968
And I was
tremendously impressed...
517
00:30:03,052 --> 00:30:06,304
because Harvey
never once called us and said...
518
00:30:06,389 --> 00:30:10,433
"Is this the right machine
for the Chinese community?"
519
00:30:10,518 --> 00:30:12,769
He knew that it was
the right machine...
520
00:30:12,853 --> 00:30:15,021
and he didn't have to call
any one of us and say...
521
00:30:15,106 --> 00:30:18,984
"Gee, I want to remind you folks
that I'm doing you this great favor...
522
00:30:19,068 --> 00:30:21,069
and I want you
to be indebted to me."
523
00:30:21,237 --> 00:30:23,863
The issue closest to Harvey Milk's heart...
524
00:30:23,948 --> 00:30:26,408
was a gay rights bill
for San Francisco.
525
00:30:26,492 --> 00:30:30,912
With the gay rights ordinance
in San Francisco, the main focus is...
526
00:30:30,997 --> 00:30:36,126
is to prevent the people who are
already employed who are gay...
527
00:30:36,210 --> 00:30:39,129
who, if they want to come out
and break down the stereotypes...
528
00:30:39,213 --> 00:30:41,214
prevents them from being fired.
529
00:30:41,298 --> 00:30:44,718
For example, you will see
in this Gay Day parade...
530
00:30:44,802 --> 00:30:48,096
a group of at least
30 gay doctors.
531
00:30:48,180 --> 00:30:50,932
That is the tip of the iceberg.
532
00:30:51,017 --> 00:30:54,269
In the Bay Area, there are hundreds
and hundreds of gay doctors...
533
00:30:54,353 --> 00:30:57,897
most of who are closeted
because of fear of loss of jobs.
534
00:30:57,982 --> 00:31:01,192
In San Francisco,
they can "come out"...
535
00:31:01,277 --> 00:31:03,278
and not have to worry
about their jobs.
536
00:31:03,362 --> 00:31:05,613
And that's the main focus
of our ordinance.
537
00:31:05,698 --> 00:31:08,742
Supervisor White says
people are getting angry...
538
00:31:08,826 --> 00:31:11,286
and he believes that anger
could lead to a backlash...
539
00:31:11,370 --> 00:31:14,873
that will wipe out all of the gains
the gays have made thus far.
540
00:31:14,957 --> 00:31:17,292
You can have someone
that's a transvestite...
541
00:31:17,376 --> 00:31:19,732
a man that for his
sexual, um, kicks or
542
00:31:19,733 --> 00:31:22,088
orientation, whatever
you want to call it...
543
00:31:22,173 --> 00:31:24,257
loves to dress up as a woman.
544
00:31:24,341 --> 00:31:27,969
If he is a qualified teacher,
he can go into any school...
545
00:31:28,054 --> 00:31:31,014
or he can go into any business,
and they can't refuse him.
546
00:31:32,141 --> 00:31:35,935
Ten supervisors
voted for the gay rights bill.
547
00:31:36,020 --> 00:31:39,189
Dan White cast
the only dissenting vote.
548
00:31:39,273 --> 00:31:43,902
Mayor Moscone enthusiastically
signed the bill into law.
549
00:31:45,154 --> 00:31:48,156
We got lots of hate mail...
550
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,618
and it started out that
the hate mail really upset me.
551
00:31:51,702 --> 00:31:54,329
Again, I just was not
prepared for that at all.
552
00:31:54,413 --> 00:31:57,874
I mean, people saying
awful, awful things.
553
00:31:57,958 --> 00:32:02,045
Just nasty, disgusting things.
554
00:32:02,129 --> 00:32:04,172
And it was Gay Freedom Day...
555
00:32:04,256 --> 00:32:07,467
and I was driving the car in the parade,
and Harvey was in it.
556
00:32:07,551 --> 00:32:11,763
I was terrified. I was afraid someone
was going to take a shot at him.
557
00:32:11,847 --> 00:32:16,726
And Harvey said, "It could happen
any day, at any place, at any time...
558
00:32:16,811 --> 00:32:18,812
and I'm just not going
to worry about it."
559
00:32:27,738 --> 00:32:29,781
Right on!
560
00:32:42,795 --> 00:32:45,463
The statement
that the Gay Day parade is...
561
00:32:45,548 --> 00:32:47,674
"No more.
No more will we be harassed.
562
00:32:47,758 --> 00:32:49,843
No more will we stay
in our closet."
563
00:32:49,927 --> 00:32:52,554
The people from all over the state
and all over the country...
564
00:32:52,638 --> 00:32:54,597
for them to see 100,000...
565
00:32:54,682 --> 00:32:56,891
to 400,000 gay people
and friends...
566
00:32:56,976 --> 00:32:58,601
marching through
the downtown area...
567
00:32:58,686 --> 00:33:03,022
this is our city too...
they will go back to Des Moines, Iowa...
568
00:33:03,107 --> 00:33:05,150
to Richmond, Minnesota,
to Santa Cruz.
569
00:33:05,234 --> 00:33:07,443
They will go back
and say, "My God...
570
00:33:07,528 --> 00:33:09,779
300,000 gay people
and their friends marching!
571
00:33:09,864 --> 00:33:12,991
You know, I almost think
I saw my son there."
572
00:33:24,211 --> 00:33:26,254
Come on out!
573
00:33:27,673 --> 00:33:30,175
Just come on out.
574
00:33:35,306 --> 00:33:37,265
What did you see
that you felt was obscene?
575
00:33:37,349 --> 00:33:41,019
Well, I see naked men walking around,
naked women walking around...
576
00:33:41,103 --> 00:33:43,188
which, uh, doesn't bother me...
577
00:33:43,272 --> 00:33:46,316
as far as my personal standards
of nudity or what...
578
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,401
but it's not proper.
579
00:33:48,485 --> 00:33:51,988
Many people do not approve
of outward displays of sexuality...
580
00:33:52,072 --> 00:33:54,616
be it heterosexuality
or homosexuality.
581
00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:56,910
And this is a point
I stand firm on.
582
00:33:56,994 --> 00:33:59,287
And I think the gay
community themselves...
583
00:33:59,371 --> 00:34:02,415
would find hard to refute
the statements I'm making now.
584
00:34:02,499 --> 00:34:06,169
And this is a problem. We wouldn't allow it
for any other parade in San Francisco...
585
00:34:06,253 --> 00:34:08,254
and it should not be allowed
for the gay parade.
586
00:34:08,339 --> 00:34:11,382
They want to bring their sin
out of the closet...
587
00:34:11,467 --> 00:34:13,468
and parade it on the street...
588
00:34:13,552 --> 00:34:17,722
and be called respectable,
decent, natural people.
589
00:34:17,806 --> 00:34:20,391
It's not decent...
590
00:34:20,476 --> 00:34:22,352
it's not respectable,
and it's not natural.
591
00:34:22,436 --> 00:34:25,313
And by the way,
God doesn't make people that way.
592
00:34:25,397 --> 00:34:27,690
Don't blame God for that.
593
00:34:27,775 --> 00:34:31,319
Who wants the children?
I'll tell you who wants your children.
594
00:34:31,403 --> 00:34:33,947
- The homosexual crowd wants them.
- That's right.
595
00:34:35,908 --> 00:34:38,743
In 1977 and '78...
596
00:34:38,827 --> 00:34:42,872
gay rights measures were being
repealed across the United States.
597
00:34:43,874 --> 00:34:48,002
In California, lawmaker John Briggs
took a further step.
598
00:34:48,087 --> 00:34:50,338
Every homosexual,
every lesbian...
599
00:34:50,422 --> 00:34:52,548
Briggs mounted a campaign...
600
00:34:52,633 --> 00:34:55,385
for Proposition 6,
a statewide measure...
601
00:34:55,469 --> 00:34:58,179
to deny homosexuals
their jobs in public schools.
602
00:34:58,264 --> 00:35:02,100
Now, what Proposition 6
is really all about...
603
00:35:02,184 --> 00:35:06,562
is the right of parents
to determine...
604
00:35:06,647 --> 00:35:09,315
who will be teaching
their children.
605
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:13,528
We don't allow people
who believe in practicing bestiality...
606
00:35:13,612 --> 00:35:15,571
to teach our children.
607
00:35:15,656 --> 00:35:18,658
We don't let prostitutes
teach our children.
608
00:35:18,742 --> 00:35:22,453
And the reason we don't is because
it's illegal to be a prostitute.
609
00:35:22,538 --> 00:35:25,707
But it's not illegal to be
a homosexual in California.
610
00:35:25,791 --> 00:35:29,168
Proposition 6
brought the issue of homosexuality...
611
00:35:29,253 --> 00:35:32,255
into the homes
of millions of Californians...
612
00:35:32,339 --> 00:35:36,342
and it thrust Harvey Milk
into a statewide spotlight.
613
00:35:36,427 --> 00:35:41,014
There are already laws on the books
to protect our children.
614
00:35:41,098 --> 00:35:44,976
Everybody from Superintendent
of Schools Wilson Riles...
615
00:35:45,060 --> 00:35:49,564
to Jerry Brown to newspaper editors
across the state agree...
616
00:35:49,648 --> 00:35:52,525
that indeed we have the laws
to protect our children.
617
00:35:52,609 --> 00:35:56,029
I was born of heterosexual parents,
I was taught...
618
00:35:56,113 --> 00:35:58,197
by heterosexual teachers...
619
00:35:58,282 --> 00:36:00,450
in a fiercely
heterosexual society...
620
00:36:00,534 --> 00:36:04,245
with television ads and newspaper ads...
fiercely heterosexual.
621
00:36:04,330 --> 00:36:07,749
A society that puts down
homosexuality.
622
00:36:07,833 --> 00:36:12,128
And why am I homosexual
if I'm affected by role models?
623
00:36:12,212 --> 00:36:14,589
I should have been
a heterosexual.
624
00:36:14,673 --> 00:36:16,674
And no offense meant...
625
00:36:16,759 --> 00:36:19,635
but if teachers are going
to affect you as role models...
626
00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:22,889
there'd be a lot of nuns
running around the streets today.
627
00:36:25,267 --> 00:36:27,435
Harvey knew
that he had to have...
628
00:36:27,519 --> 00:36:29,354
or that the gay community had to have...
629
00:36:29,438 --> 00:36:31,856
some kind of a repository for money...
630
00:36:31,940 --> 00:36:35,443
so that groups that were fighting
the Briggs Initiative would have the...
631
00:36:35,527 --> 00:36:38,905
you know, could get funds
to do the things that they had to do.
632
00:36:38,989 --> 00:36:41,199
And I ended being his cochair...
633
00:36:41,283 --> 00:36:44,827
of the United Fund
to Fight the Briggs Initiative.
634
00:36:44,912 --> 00:36:48,331
And that began our association,
which over those months...
635
00:36:48,415 --> 00:36:52,668
when Proposition 6 came into being,
became a real close association.
636
00:36:52,753 --> 00:36:57,131
And I got to know him on a level
that I had never anticipated.
637
00:36:57,216 --> 00:36:59,884
Nobody took Harvey Milk very seriously...
638
00:36:59,968 --> 00:37:04,055
when he first ran for the San Francisco
Board of Supervisors in 1973...
639
00:37:04,139 --> 00:37:06,849
but last year Milk won election
to the board of supervisors...
640
00:37:06,934 --> 00:37:10,812
where he's the first openly gay
city official in the United States.
641
00:37:10,896 --> 00:37:14,315
And representing the Bay Area Committee
Against the Briggs Initiative...
642
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:18,027
is Sally Gearheart... a lesbian,
a former high school teacher...
643
00:37:18,112 --> 00:37:21,489
and now a speech professor
at San Francisco State University.
644
00:37:21,573 --> 00:37:23,991
I remember that just before that debate...
645
00:37:24,076 --> 00:37:27,954
we had had a lot of talk, Harvey and I,
about how we would dress...
646
00:37:28,038 --> 00:37:32,750
and we had agreed that the image to project
was sort of "Mama and Papa U.S.A.":
647
00:37:32,835 --> 00:37:35,294
as neat and conservative
as we possibly could.
648
00:37:35,379 --> 00:37:38,798
So a half hour before we start
to leave for the television station...
649
00:37:38,882 --> 00:37:41,300
Harvey calls me and says...
650
00:37:41,385 --> 00:37:43,928
"I've lost my earrings, dear!
Whatever shall I do?"
651
00:37:44,012 --> 00:37:47,140
Right? And I freak out,
thinking, "Oh, my soul!"
652
00:37:47,224 --> 00:37:50,852
You yourself say that
the heterosexual is the child molester.
653
00:37:50,936 --> 00:37:54,230
And if in your statements here,
and all these newspapers, and tonight...
654
00:37:54,314 --> 00:37:57,900
that child molestation is not an issue,
if it is not an issue...
655
00:37:57,985 --> 00:38:00,903
why do you put out literature
that hammers it home?
656
00:38:00,988 --> 00:38:03,156
Why do you play
on that myth and fear?
657
00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:06,617
Same thing with V.D., Harvey.
We put out publications about V.D...
658
00:38:06,702 --> 00:38:08,953
- so you can avoid it.
- This is campaign literature.
659
00:38:09,037 --> 00:38:11,622
Yes. We're trying to keep people
from falling into that trap.
660
00:38:11,707 --> 00:38:13,541
We're trying to prevent it
by pointing it out.
661
00:38:13,625 --> 00:38:17,044
And I don't make the statement
that 95% of all the heterosexuals commit...
662
00:38:17,129 --> 00:38:19,046
- What percent is it?
- I don't know. You tell me.
663
00:38:19,131 --> 00:38:21,132
The state says 90-95%.
664
00:38:21,216 --> 00:38:24,385
I've never seen that in writing.
I don't make those statements... you do.
665
00:38:24,470 --> 00:38:29,307
- You even say here... - We are
not talking about child molestation.
666
00:38:29,391 --> 00:38:32,518
The fact is, at least 95%
of the people are heterosexual.
667
00:38:32,603 --> 00:38:35,855
If we took heterosexuals out
and homosexuals out, you know what?
668
00:38:35,939 --> 00:38:38,065
We'd have no teachers.
No child molestation.
669
00:38:38,150 --> 00:38:40,151
So you're saying that
the percentage of population...
670
00:38:40,235 --> 00:38:43,779
is equal to the percentage of child
molestation. Then there's no difference.
671
00:38:43,864 --> 00:38:45,865
- No, I'm not saying that at all.
- That's what you just said.
672
00:38:45,949 --> 00:38:48,743
No, I was saying we cannot
prevent child molestation...
673
00:38:48,827 --> 00:38:50,828
so let's cut our odds down
and take out...
674
00:38:50,913 --> 00:38:54,207
the homosexual group
and keep in the heterosexual group.
675
00:38:54,333 --> 00:38:57,710
Why take out the homosexual
group when it's more, you know...
676
00:38:57,794 --> 00:39:00,463
Overwhelmingly it is true,
that it's the heterosexual men...
677
00:39:00,547 --> 00:39:02,548
I might add,
who are the child molesters.
678
00:39:02,633 --> 00:39:04,592
I believe that's a myth.
I've never seen...
679
00:39:04,676 --> 00:39:07,053
Oh, Senator!
680
00:39:07,137 --> 00:39:10,223
The FBI, the National Council
on Family Relations...
681
00:39:10,307 --> 00:39:14,602
the Santa Clara County Child Sexual Abuse
Treatment Center, and on and on and on...
682
00:39:14,686 --> 00:39:18,606
Sometimes I think what we were
faced with in Proposition 6...
683
00:39:18,690 --> 00:39:21,526
was not so much
a conflict of values...
684
00:39:21,610 --> 00:39:24,445
as two sets of fears.
685
00:39:24,530 --> 00:39:27,615
The incredible fears that
the gay community had, all of us...
686
00:39:27,699 --> 00:39:29,617
that here we were,
being stomped on...
687
00:39:29,701 --> 00:39:31,744
by what was turning out
to be the Moral Majority.
688
00:39:31,828 --> 00:39:34,580
I mean, our very lives were being,
you know, threatened...
689
00:39:34,665 --> 00:39:36,624
the ways that we live,
what our lifestyle is...
690
00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:40,503
and our reaction was extreme,
and it should have been extreme.
691
00:39:40,587 --> 00:39:43,214
But then when you get
into the other person's shoes...
692
00:39:43,298 --> 00:39:47,176
you figure that there was a lot of fear
on the part of the fundamentalists as well.
693
00:39:47,261 --> 00:39:49,929
I mean, when you've lived
your entire life...
694
00:39:50,013 --> 00:39:52,557
believing in a certain
social structure...
695
00:39:52,641 --> 00:39:54,642
believing in certain sex roles...
696
00:39:54,726 --> 00:39:57,812
believing in the ways that men
and women should relate to each other...
697
00:39:57,896 --> 00:40:00,273
believing in the family...
698
00:40:00,357 --> 00:40:02,233
you know,
believing in what God...
699
00:40:02,317 --> 00:40:05,528
what you believe God says
should be the way...
700
00:40:05,612 --> 00:40:09,073
human beings should relate
within the family structure...
701
00:40:09,157 --> 00:40:13,953
and all of a sudden,
there are these "perverts" out here...
702
00:40:14,037 --> 00:40:16,581
saying there are ways to live
that are different from that...
703
00:40:16,665 --> 00:40:19,333
and that furthermore it's great
and beautiful and true and good...
704
00:40:19,418 --> 00:40:21,419
then you're threatened.
705
00:40:21,503 --> 00:40:25,214
And the very fabric of what this nation
is supposed to be made up of...
706
00:40:25,299 --> 00:40:29,510
in the eyes of the fundamentalists,
was actually being attacked...
707
00:40:29,595 --> 00:40:32,138
or is actually being attacked,
by gay people.
708
00:40:32,347 --> 00:40:34,223
You know about Prop 6?
709
00:40:34,308 --> 00:40:37,310
In August,
four months before the election...
710
00:40:37,394 --> 00:40:40,938
opinion polls predicted
that the majority of California citizens...
711
00:40:41,023 --> 00:40:43,983
would vote
for John Briggs' Proposition 6...
712
00:40:44,067 --> 00:40:46,736
- and against the rights of gay teachers.
- What do you think about it?
713
00:40:46,820 --> 00:40:50,114
We had lost repeatedly. Every time
that gay rights had been up for a vote...
714
00:40:50,198 --> 00:40:53,909
we had lost, around the country,
usually by huge margins.
715
00:40:55,245 --> 00:40:57,997
Almost everyone thought we were
going to lose, and lose badly.
716
00:40:58,081 --> 00:41:01,083
I don't remember
anyone being optimistic.
717
00:41:01,168 --> 00:41:03,669
We were so pessimistic...
718
00:41:03,754 --> 00:41:05,963
or at least I was,
and a lot of other people were...
719
00:41:06,048 --> 00:41:07,882
that we thought we might
even lose San Francisco.
720
00:41:07,966 --> 00:41:11,552
The bulk of Briggs'
support lies in Southern California...
721
00:41:11,637 --> 00:41:14,722
so his appearance here
was more symbolic than functional.
722
00:41:14,806 --> 00:41:19,226
He called San Francisco
the "moral garbage dump of the nation."
723
00:41:19,311 --> 00:41:22,229
If they're gonna lead
such an open life of homosexuality...
724
00:41:22,314 --> 00:41:26,108
that they want a 21-gun salute
every time somebody goes by them...
725
00:41:26,193 --> 00:41:29,028
those people are gonna be in danger
of being removed from their job.
726
00:41:29,112 --> 00:41:31,072
People are very emotional.
They don't want to listen.
727
00:41:31,156 --> 00:41:33,157
Look what happened in Germany.
728
00:41:33,241 --> 00:41:36,410
Anita Bryant already says that
Jews and Moslems are going to hell.
729
00:41:36,495 --> 00:41:38,496
You know she's got a shopping list.
730
00:41:38,580 --> 00:41:40,998
John Briggs said this morning
that Dade County, Oklahoma...
731
00:41:41,083 --> 00:41:44,251
and St. Paul, Minnesota,
were only preliminary battles.
732
00:41:44,336 --> 00:41:47,713
He called his California campaign
against homosexual teachers...
733
00:41:47,798 --> 00:41:49,757
"the main event."
734
00:41:49,841 --> 00:41:53,719
At San Francisco City Hall, Linda Schacht,
Channel 5 Eyewitness News.
735
00:41:55,222 --> 00:41:57,223
This was such
a personal issue for me.
736
00:41:57,307 --> 00:41:59,308
This is something
I did every day.
737
00:42:00,477 --> 00:42:04,605
And of course, the gay teacher
issue is very volatile.
738
00:42:04,690 --> 00:42:07,566
To sit down with somebody
who's a parent...
739
00:42:07,651 --> 00:42:09,902
and maybe not particularly
vitriolic against people...
740
00:42:09,986 --> 00:42:12,822
but to really say, "This is a myth.
I've been teaching here a long time.
741
00:42:12,906 --> 00:42:14,907
I'm not interested
in getting in his pants."
742
00:42:14,991 --> 00:42:17,118
You know,
people didn't want to hear it.
743
00:42:17,202 --> 00:42:20,246
I mean, how do you win people
over to your side...
744
00:42:20,330 --> 00:42:22,832
on something that's
so ingrained and so emotional?
745
00:42:22,916 --> 00:42:24,917
I mean, their children!
746
00:42:25,001 --> 00:42:27,586
So even though he was a buffoon,
and even though he was ludicrous...
747
00:42:27,671 --> 00:42:31,465
he was also... at least the people
who advised him... were brilliant...
748
00:42:31,550 --> 00:42:34,176
because they picked
on this particular issue: children!
749
00:42:34,261 --> 00:42:37,304
Um, it would be hard for me...
750
00:42:37,389 --> 00:42:41,058
if we're talking about schools,
to go along with you. I...
751
00:42:41,143 --> 00:42:44,061
Any other adult thing
that you do...
752
00:42:44,146 --> 00:42:46,939
the decorator, the hairdresser,
whom I love, whom I have...
753
00:42:47,023 --> 00:42:49,775
I'd take him on every vacation if I had.
I don't care what he does.
754
00:42:49,860 --> 00:42:51,819
You went to people's
houses and talked to them.
755
00:42:51,903 --> 00:42:55,489
And you didn't have to have a lot
of money to do some of the things.
756
00:42:55,574 --> 00:42:58,451
You went to shopping centers.
Because a lot of it was face-to-face.
757
00:42:58,535 --> 00:43:00,494
This was a very brave thing.
758
00:43:00,579 --> 00:43:02,037
- How are you?
- May I ask you something?
759
00:43:02,122 --> 00:43:04,999
We're volunteers working against
Proposition 6, the Briggs Initiative.
760
00:43:05,083 --> 00:43:07,084
Do you know
about the Briggs Initiative?
761
00:43:07,169 --> 00:43:10,713
What is No. 6? Smoking?
762
00:43:10,797 --> 00:43:12,798
No, that's No. 5.
763
00:43:12,883 --> 00:43:15,551
No. 6 would force
local school districts...
764
00:43:15,635 --> 00:43:18,220
to fire any teacher
that was gay...
765
00:43:18,305 --> 00:43:22,349
or who believed that gay people
have rights like other people.
766
00:43:22,434 --> 00:43:25,895
And we're concerned that
that would be a real attack...
767
00:43:25,979 --> 00:43:28,397
on human rights for everybody.
768
00:43:28,482 --> 00:43:31,317
How do you feel about the initiative,
on what you do know?
769
00:43:31,401 --> 00:43:35,279
Well, we don't have
any definite opinion on this.
770
00:43:35,363 --> 00:43:37,364
No comment.
771
00:43:37,449 --> 00:43:39,617
- Could I leave some literature with you...
- Sure.
772
00:43:39,701 --> 00:43:41,702
So you could learn
a little bit more about it?
773
00:43:41,787 --> 00:43:44,205
- Are you registered voters?
- Yes, I have registered already.
774
00:43:44,289 --> 00:43:46,415
Whoops! Sorry.
775
00:43:46,500 --> 00:43:50,503
I believe this is
kind of personal matter.
776
00:43:50,587 --> 00:43:52,713
It sure is, but, uh...
777
00:43:52,798 --> 00:43:55,257
Yeah, it's something
that we feel real strongly about.
778
00:43:55,342 --> 00:43:57,343
You know, a lot of my friends
are gay teachers...
779
00:43:57,427 --> 00:44:00,179
and they'll lose their jobs over this,
so I really wish you'd...
780
00:44:00,263 --> 00:44:02,556
- That is bad.
- give some thought to it...
781
00:44:02,641 --> 00:44:05,851
because a lot of people will really
be affected very badly by it.
782
00:44:05,936 --> 00:44:08,020
It's also something
where once you set up one kind of thing...
783
00:44:08,104 --> 00:44:10,397
to discriminate
against one group of people...
784
00:44:10,482 --> 00:44:12,483
lots of times it makes it easier
to discriminate...
785
00:44:12,567 --> 00:44:14,568
against other groups of people
next time around.
786
00:44:14,653 --> 00:44:16,904
- Right.
- Well, give it some thought.
787
00:44:16,988 --> 00:44:19,365
- Okay.
- I agree with you.
788
00:44:19,449 --> 00:44:23,536
If, by their silence and their doing
nothing, Briggs should win...
789
00:44:23,620 --> 00:44:27,206
I think a lot of people are gonna realize
they have to make an ultimate decision.
790
00:44:27,290 --> 00:44:29,625
The decision is to go back
in their closet real good...
791
00:44:29,709 --> 00:44:32,920
slam the door tight...
which some will do...
792
00:44:33,004 --> 00:44:35,422
or burst down those closet doors
once and for all...
793
00:44:35,507 --> 00:44:37,466
and stand up and start to fight.
794
00:44:37,551 --> 00:44:42,096
Because if we learn from history
that the struggle goes on...
795
00:44:42,180 --> 00:44:44,265
eventually we will win.
796
00:44:44,349 --> 00:44:48,018
And all the president has to do is...
or the governor...
797
00:44:48,103 --> 00:44:50,396
is to turn the pages
of history a little faster.
798
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,440
Join me in this message!
799
00:44:53,525 --> 00:44:58,279
Jimmy Carter, listen to us.
You want to lead?
800
00:44:58,363 --> 00:45:01,282
You want to be the world's
leader on human rights?
801
00:45:01,366 --> 00:45:03,909
Well, damn it, lead!
802
00:45:03,994 --> 00:45:07,288
There are 15...
803
00:45:07,372 --> 00:45:11,542
There are 15 million
lesbians and gay men...
804
00:45:11,626 --> 00:45:13,627
waiting to hear your voice!
805
00:45:15,797 --> 00:45:19,967
The grassroots No-on-6
campaign was proving effective.
806
00:45:20,051 --> 00:45:24,430
One month before the election,
the polls predicted a close vote.
807
00:45:26,266 --> 00:45:29,059
Many people
had come to believe...
808
00:45:29,144 --> 00:45:32,730
the Briggs Initiative would
violate constitutional rights.
809
00:45:32,814 --> 00:45:34,982
A surprising array
of political figures...
810
00:45:35,066 --> 00:45:37,401
including former governor
Ronald Reagan...
811
00:45:37,485 --> 00:45:39,486
and Supervisor Dan White...
812
00:45:39,571 --> 00:45:42,448
went on record
against the proposition.
813
00:45:42,532 --> 00:45:44,950
President Carter spent less than an hour...
814
00:45:45,035 --> 00:45:46,994
at this downtown Sacramento rally.
815
00:45:47,078 --> 00:45:49,496
As the president
left the podium...
816
00:45:49,581 --> 00:45:52,082
Jerry Brown whispered
to him briefly...
817
00:45:52,167 --> 00:45:55,794
and he came back for one more
word of advice for voters.
818
00:45:55,921 --> 00:45:59,173
Ford and Reagan have already come out
against it, so I think it's perfectly safe.
819
00:45:59,257 --> 00:46:03,135
Also, I want to ask everybody
to vote against Proposition 6.
820
00:46:09,601 --> 00:46:12,353
On November 7, 1978...
821
00:46:12,437 --> 00:46:18,651
Proposition 6 was defeated
by a resounding 59% to 41 %.
822
00:46:18,735 --> 00:46:20,694
On election night...
823
00:46:20,779 --> 00:46:23,989
Mayor George Moscone
and Supervisor Harvey Milk...
824
00:46:24,074 --> 00:46:27,576
joined the jubilant
celebration in the Castro.
825
00:46:27,661 --> 00:46:29,662
Harvey Milk was at the height...
826
00:46:29,746 --> 00:46:32,581
of his political power.
827
00:46:34,459 --> 00:46:37,878
Oh! That was one of the most...
828
00:46:37,963 --> 00:46:40,047
That was one of the most
exciting nights in my life.
829
00:46:40,131 --> 00:46:42,549
I don't think there's any doubt
about it. It must have been...
830
00:46:42,634 --> 00:46:45,970
for most lesbians and gay men,
at least in the state of California.
831
00:46:46,054 --> 00:46:48,472
Because it wasn't plain...
832
00:46:48,556 --> 00:46:52,935
even up until
the evening of the vote...
833
00:46:53,019 --> 00:46:55,312
that we were gonna win...
it wasn't plain at all.
834
00:46:55,397 --> 00:46:57,856
And then here was Harvey.
835
00:46:57,941 --> 00:46:59,900
And who had been the man
836
00:46:59,985 --> 00:47:02,528
who had carried the banner
for gay people, you know?
837
00:47:02,612 --> 00:47:04,738
Who had been the man
who had fought all along...
838
00:47:04,823 --> 00:47:06,824
in his politics
on the board of supervisors...
839
00:47:06,908 --> 00:47:09,243
but particularly
during the 6 campaign?
840
00:47:09,327 --> 00:47:11,286
It had been Harvey.
841
00:47:11,371 --> 00:47:13,497
He had been the symbol for all of us.
He had been the image.
842
00:47:13,581 --> 00:47:15,958
And he mounted that platform...
843
00:47:16,042 --> 00:47:17,960
and I thought the place
was gonna collapse.
844
00:47:18,044 --> 00:47:20,337
I've never heard
such cheering in my life.
845
00:47:21,339 --> 00:47:24,925
To the gay community all over this state...
846
00:47:25,010 --> 00:47:27,553
my message to you is...
847
00:47:27,637 --> 00:47:32,683
so far a lot of people joined us
and rejected Proposition 6...
848
00:47:32,767 --> 00:47:36,061
and now we owe them something.
849
00:47:36,146 --> 00:47:41,233
We owe them to continue
the education campaign that took place.
850
00:47:41,317 --> 00:47:45,070
We must destroy the myths,
once and for all shatter them.
851
00:47:45,155 --> 00:47:48,365
We must continue
to speak out...
852
00:47:48,450 --> 00:47:50,576
and most importantly...
853
00:47:50,660 --> 00:47:54,079
most importantly,
every gay person...
854
00:47:54,164 --> 00:47:56,123
must come out.
855
00:47:59,127 --> 00:48:01,211
As difficult as it is...
856
00:48:01,296 --> 00:48:03,797
you must tell
your immediate family.
857
00:48:03,882 --> 00:48:06,050
You must tell your relatives.
858
00:48:06,134 --> 00:48:09,511
You must tell your friends,
if indeed they are your friends.
859
00:48:09,596 --> 00:48:11,180
You must tell your neighbors.
860
00:48:11,264 --> 00:48:13,307
You must tell
the people you work with.
861
00:48:13,391 --> 00:48:17,144
You must tell the people
in the stores you shop in. You...
862
00:48:26,112 --> 00:48:30,866
And once they realize
that we are indeed their children...
863
00:48:30,950 --> 00:48:32,951
and we are indeed everywhere...
864
00:48:33,036 --> 00:48:36,997
every myth, every lie,
every innuendo...
865
00:48:37,082 --> 00:48:40,000
will be destroyed once and for all.
866
00:48:40,085 --> 00:48:42,711
And once... once you do...
867
00:48:42,796 --> 00:48:45,047
you will feel so much better.
868
00:48:51,930 --> 00:48:54,848
...can't stand for anymore.
I'm angry.
869
00:48:54,933 --> 00:48:57,768
Four days
after the Briggs Initiative lost...
870
00:48:57,852 --> 00:49:00,896
Dan White engineered
his own defeat.
871
00:49:00,980 --> 00:49:05,025
Surprising everyone, he resigned
from the board of supervisors.
872
00:49:05,110 --> 00:49:09,238
In the last year, Dan White
had left a secure job as a fireman...
873
00:49:09,322 --> 00:49:12,574
been elected a city supervisor
for little pay...
874
00:49:12,659 --> 00:49:14,701
launched a risky
new business...
875
00:49:14,786 --> 00:49:17,287
and become a father
for the first time.
876
00:49:17,372 --> 00:49:20,999
Dan White had entered
City Hall an idealist.
877
00:49:21,084 --> 00:49:24,336
Unlike his flourishing counterpart,
Harvey Milk...
878
00:49:24,420 --> 00:49:27,256
he was often frustrated
by the job.
879
00:49:27,340 --> 00:49:30,467
White had never learned
to operate in City Hall's atmosphere...
880
00:49:30,552 --> 00:49:32,553
of back scratching
and compromise.
881
00:49:32,637 --> 00:49:34,596
If there's members
that don't want to cooperate...
882
00:49:34,681 --> 00:49:37,015
White's resignation left
Mayor Moscone...
883
00:49:37,100 --> 00:49:39,601
with the task of finding
a replacement.
884
00:49:42,272 --> 00:49:44,898
Mr. Mayor, what's happened
since Dan White has resigned?
885
00:49:44,983 --> 00:49:46,984
I understand you're getting
a lot of phone calls?
886
00:49:47,068 --> 00:49:49,820
The phone calls and cards
and letters have been coming...
887
00:49:49,904 --> 00:49:52,030
I will tell you,
as Dean Martin used to say.
888
00:49:52,115 --> 00:49:56,743
I was lobbied from just about
the evening that Dan White resigned...
889
00:49:56,828 --> 00:50:00,372
all through the weekend, and the phones
have been ringing off the hook today.
890
00:50:00,456 --> 00:50:04,585
This is Supervisorial District 8,
Dan White's former district.
891
00:50:04,669 --> 00:50:08,130
As you know, most people were very
surprised when Dan quit last Friday.
892
00:50:08,214 --> 00:50:10,924
No one seemed to know. He didn't tell
any of his fellow supervisors...
893
00:50:11,009 --> 00:50:13,010
nor did he tell
any of his political supporters.
894
00:50:13,094 --> 00:50:17,181
Obviously, you know,
if the time I spent to become elected...
895
00:50:17,265 --> 00:50:21,226
the time I spent down at the board,
the hours, the many hours I've spent...
896
00:50:21,311 --> 00:50:23,270
I don't want to see wasted.
897
00:50:23,354 --> 00:50:26,398
But for now, I can only deal
with my family's responsibilities.
898
00:50:26,482 --> 00:50:28,442
Many don't agree with Dan White.
899
00:50:28,526 --> 00:50:30,861
They say he gave up
all of his political chits...
900
00:50:30,945 --> 00:50:33,322
when he resigned so quickly
without making any arrangements...
901
00:50:33,406 --> 00:50:37,492
for someone whom he liked
and supported to take over this district.
902
00:50:37,577 --> 00:50:39,578
In Supervisor District 8,
I'm David Fowler...
903
00:50:39,662 --> 00:50:41,705
Channel 5 Eyewitness News.
904
00:50:42,999 --> 00:50:46,126
Well, now it starts all over again,
because this morning...
905
00:50:46,211 --> 00:50:48,128
former supervisor
Dan White says...
906
00:50:48,213 --> 00:50:51,673
he wants to be called
supervisor one more time.
907
00:50:51,758 --> 00:50:55,719
I didn't run for election to resign
ten months later. I worked awfully hard.
908
00:50:55,803 --> 00:50:59,014
My wife and my supporters
worked awfully hard...
909
00:50:59,098 --> 00:51:01,099
so that I would be elected.
910
00:51:01,184 --> 00:51:03,852
And it was a major decision,
as you can all understand, on Friday...
911
00:51:03,937 --> 00:51:06,438
that I had to come...
to arrive at.
912
00:51:06,522 --> 00:51:09,441
But since that time,
people unknown to me...
913
00:51:09,525 --> 00:51:12,110
plus my family and friends, uh...
914
00:51:12,195 --> 00:51:14,613
have come to me and stated
that they want me to stay in office...
915
00:51:14,697 --> 00:51:16,657
that they supported me
to stay in office.
916
00:51:16,741 --> 00:51:19,201
Mayor Moscone
learned from the city attorney...
917
00:51:19,285 --> 00:51:22,371
that Dan White could not
take back his resignation.
918
00:51:22,455 --> 00:51:24,748
It was up
to the mayor to decide...
919
00:51:24,832 --> 00:51:27,834
who would get
the District 8 seat.
920
00:51:27,919 --> 00:51:31,630
Harvey Milk lobbied hard
against reappointing Dan White.
921
00:51:31,714 --> 00:51:37,177
Harvey's story was that the mayor
was thinking of reappointing Dan...
922
00:51:37,262 --> 00:51:40,097
and that Harvey went in and said,
"How can you possibly do that?
923
00:51:40,181 --> 00:51:42,724
Dan is the sixth vote
on the board we need."
924
00:51:42,809 --> 00:51:46,186
And certainly Harvey
was courageous in that stance...
925
00:51:46,271 --> 00:51:48,272
because no one else
was doin' it.
926
00:51:48,356 --> 00:51:52,192
And there were other supervisors
on the board who felt just as strongly...
927
00:51:52,277 --> 00:51:54,528
but they weren't going
to get involved in that.
928
00:51:54,612 --> 00:51:58,532
I mean, what if Dan got reappointed,
you know? Think of the animosity.
929
00:51:59,826 --> 00:52:01,785
Moscone started
to get word from his coalition...
930
00:52:01,869 --> 00:52:04,329
of neighborhood groups
and ethnic voters.
931
00:52:04,414 --> 00:52:06,456
Most of the problems
of the people here tonight...
932
00:52:06,541 --> 00:52:09,209
were that they were not consulted...
they might have helped...
933
00:52:09,294 --> 00:52:12,045
and the fact that they weren't
even given the dignity...
934
00:52:12,130 --> 00:52:14,131
of his concern bothered them.
935
00:52:14,215 --> 00:52:16,591
So that's obviously
not the best way to go.
936
00:52:16,676 --> 00:52:20,971
I think a 10-month supervisor
can be excused for political na�vet�.
937
00:52:21,055 --> 00:52:23,724
I'm simply saying it may not
have been the best way to go.
938
00:52:23,808 --> 00:52:26,310
But the issue
is bigger than his style.
939
00:52:26,394 --> 00:52:31,398
The issue is what's fair, right,
and just for the people of District 8.
940
00:52:31,482 --> 00:52:34,109
White was at City Hall
with his group of backers:
941
00:52:34,193 --> 00:52:36,278
some citizens, firemen...
942
00:52:36,362 --> 00:52:39,573
and a delegation representing
large real estate firms.
943
00:52:39,657 --> 00:52:42,701
I'm overwhelmed at your support,
that you would take time out...
944
00:52:42,785 --> 00:52:45,996
to come down here
on a Friday at this time...
945
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,415
to show not only me
but the people of my district...
946
00:52:48,499 --> 00:52:50,459
and the people
of San Francisco...
947
00:52:50,543 --> 00:52:52,878
that you approve of the way
I'm conducting myself.
948
00:52:52,962 --> 00:52:56,757
But then Dan White
and the shambles of his political career...
949
00:52:56,841 --> 00:53:00,635
were upstaged by chaos
of an entirely different order.
950
00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:03,013
The city learned
of the murder-suicide...
951
00:53:03,097 --> 00:53:05,432
of some 900 people...
952
00:53:05,516 --> 00:53:07,517
most of them San Franciscans.
953
00:53:07,602 --> 00:53:10,145
In Jonestown, Guyana.
954
00:53:11,814 --> 00:53:14,107
On Monday, November 27...
955
00:53:14,192 --> 00:53:18,862
Mayor Moscone planned
to announce District 8's new supervisor.
956
00:53:18,946 --> 00:53:21,782
It was not
going to be Dan White.
957
00:53:22,575 --> 00:53:26,411
Good evening. To outsiders
and even to some San Franciscans...
958
00:53:26,496 --> 00:53:29,414
it must appear the city
has gone a little insane.
959
00:53:29,499 --> 00:53:31,458
Just as everyone is beginning
to come to grips...
960
00:53:31,542 --> 00:53:34,127
with the mindless murder-suicide
of over 900 members...
961
00:53:34,212 --> 00:53:36,630
of the San Francisco-based
People's Temple...
962
00:53:36,714 --> 00:53:39,341
word screams out over the radio,
the television, the newspapers...
963
00:53:39,425 --> 00:53:41,426
that another tragedy is upon us.
964
00:53:54,023 --> 00:53:56,358
Code 3, room 200.
965
00:53:56,442 --> 00:53:58,652
I'm in the mayor's office.
966
00:53:58,736 --> 00:54:01,321
One moment.
967
00:54:01,406 --> 00:54:04,324
We're trying to ascertain
what's happening.
968
00:54:05,410 --> 00:54:07,786
Room 237, please.
969
00:54:08,079 --> 00:54:11,206
Get another ambulance
over here, will ya?
970
00:54:16,129 --> 00:54:18,130
Where are the victims going?
971
00:54:18,214 --> 00:54:20,173
I don't know if they're going anywhere.
972
00:54:20,258 --> 00:54:23,885
Harvey Milk and the Mayor
are supposed to be D.O.A.
973
00:54:23,970 --> 00:54:29,599
As president of the board, I-I'm, I'm...
974
00:54:29,684 --> 00:54:31,768
As president
of the board of supervisors...
975
00:54:31,853 --> 00:54:35,188
it's my duty
to make this announcement.
976
00:54:35,273 --> 00:54:40,026
Both Mayor Moscone
and Supervisor Harvey Milk...
977
00:54:40,111 --> 00:54:42,279
have been shot and killed.
978
00:54:42,363 --> 00:54:44,448
No! Jesus Christ!
979
00:54:44,532 --> 00:54:46,616
The...
980
00:54:47,785 --> 00:54:50,579
- Hold it!
- Hold it!
981
00:54:50,663 --> 00:54:53,457
- Shh!
- Quiet!
982
00:54:53,583 --> 00:54:56,251
Quiet, everybody!
983
00:54:56,335 --> 00:55:00,464
The suspect
is Supervisor Dan White.
984
00:55:02,467 --> 00:55:04,968
Is he in custody?
985
00:55:05,052 --> 00:55:08,972
He's not... He's not at this time.
Thank you very much.
986
00:55:09,223 --> 00:55:12,434
Attention all units:
suspect named Dan White.
987
00:55:12,518 --> 00:55:15,353
White male adult, 32 years...
988
00:55:16,522 --> 00:55:19,065
six feet, 185 pounds...
989
00:55:19,150 --> 00:55:21,359
wearing a three-piece brown suit.
990
00:55:21,444 --> 00:55:24,446
Considered armed and dangerous.
991
00:55:29,994 --> 00:55:33,747
Attention all units: Former supervisor
Dan White is now in custody.
992
00:55:33,831 --> 00:55:39,669
Repeating: Former supervisor
Dan White is now in custody. Clear.
993
00:55:40,630 --> 00:55:42,672
Dan, why'd you do it?
994
00:55:43,966 --> 00:55:46,134
Dan, why? Why?
995
00:55:58,397 --> 00:56:00,982
Okay, that's it.
Enough. That's it.
996
00:56:02,068 --> 00:56:05,779
At approximately 10:45 a.m...
997
00:56:05,863 --> 00:56:08,865
realizing he was not going
to be reappointed...
998
00:56:08,950 --> 00:56:13,411
Dan White went directly
to the mayor's office unannounced.
999
00:56:13,496 --> 00:56:15,455
There was a brief argument.
1000
00:56:15,540 --> 00:56:19,417
Dan White pulled out a gun
and shot George Moscone.
1001
00:56:19,502 --> 00:56:21,461
The mayor fell...
1002
00:56:21,546 --> 00:56:25,549
and White fired
two more bullets into his head.
1003
00:56:25,633 --> 00:56:27,634
White then reloaded his gun.
1004
00:56:27,718 --> 00:56:29,719
He walked
to the other side of City Hall...
1005
00:56:29,804 --> 00:56:32,138
and into Harvey Milk's office.
1006
00:56:32,223 --> 00:56:34,808
Five shots rang out.
1007
00:56:34,892 --> 00:56:37,102
According
to the coroner's report...
1008
00:56:37,186 --> 00:56:40,063
Harvey Milk was rising,
both hands out in front of him...
1009
00:56:40,147 --> 00:56:42,148
when the first shot hit.
1010
00:56:42,233 --> 00:56:45,694
He fell.
White fired three more times.
1011
00:56:45,778 --> 00:56:48,405
He leaned over and,
from above...
1012
00:56:48,489 --> 00:56:51,241
put the gun nearly
against Harvey Milk's head...
1013
00:56:51,325 --> 00:56:54,160
and fired a last time.
1014
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,000
The day that Harvey was killed...
1015
00:57:00,084 --> 00:57:03,253
I was flying up to Seattle
to visit my folks...
1016
00:57:03,337 --> 00:57:06,840
and it's really...
1017
00:57:06,924 --> 00:57:12,053
I think it was the first time I had seen
them since our talk about coming out.
1018
00:57:12,138 --> 00:57:17,350
I, um... got on the plane
at 11:15 in San Francisco.
1019
00:57:17,435 --> 00:57:21,021
Harvey was killed at 11:10,
but I had no idea.
1020
00:57:21,105 --> 00:57:23,940
And so I screamed,
and I came back up Van Ness Avenue...
1021
00:57:24,066 --> 00:57:27,027
and I remember thinking, "People are going
about their business in an ordinary way.
1022
00:57:27,111 --> 00:57:29,529
How dare they go about
their business in an ordinary way!
1023
00:57:29,614 --> 00:57:32,240
Don't you realize the course
of history's been changed?"
1024
00:57:32,325 --> 00:57:37,537
We had a black-and-white television, and
we turned it on in the office and, um...
1025
00:57:37,622 --> 00:57:40,165
I think it was just too painful,
you know?
1026
00:57:40,249 --> 00:57:45,754
I mean, it was clear that both of them
were dead, brutally assassinated.
1027
00:57:45,838 --> 00:57:48,131
And I... You know, I...
1028
00:57:51,969 --> 00:57:54,304
I walked out of the office.
1029
00:57:58,059 --> 00:58:00,101
I had the radio on...
1030
00:58:00,186 --> 00:58:03,980
and the guy came on,
and he said it with such a certitude.
1031
00:58:04,065 --> 00:58:06,816
Sometimes you hear things on the news,
and they're not gonna be true.
1032
00:58:06,901 --> 00:58:08,902
He just said it,
and I knew it was true.
1033
00:58:08,986 --> 00:58:11,363
In fact, I... It's interesting.
Later I thought...
1034
00:58:11,447 --> 00:58:13,823
"I've always kind of thought
this might happen"...
1035
00:58:13,908 --> 00:58:16,660
and never dwelled on it,
and here it was happening.
1036
00:58:16,744 --> 00:58:20,205
He was saying,
"Harvey Milk and George Moscone...
1037
00:58:20,289 --> 00:58:22,749
were shot and killed
by Dan White."
1038
00:58:22,833 --> 00:58:25,251
And I just screamed, "No!"
It just kinda came out.
1039
00:58:25,336 --> 00:58:28,213
People looked, but I had a feeling
people knew why I was screaming.
1040
00:58:28,297 --> 00:58:31,758
So I drove down to City Hall.
I wasn't going to sit here and go crazy.
1041
00:58:31,842 --> 00:58:34,094
And I had to park far away...
1042
00:58:34,178 --> 00:58:37,097
so I walked past this entrance
that I ordinarily...
1043
00:58:37,181 --> 00:58:39,265
would not walk past...
1044
00:58:39,350 --> 00:58:41,685
and they were bringing out
the bodies then.
1045
00:58:41,769 --> 00:58:44,646
You know, it's kind of...
1046
00:58:45,314 --> 00:58:48,483
I mean, you can think somebody's dead,
but I mean, there...
1047
00:58:48,567 --> 00:58:51,194
And I knew it was Milk
because I knew how tall he was.
1048
00:58:51,278 --> 00:58:54,614
And they hadn't covered
part of his feet or something, and I...
1049
00:58:54,699 --> 00:58:56,700
You know, you trip out
on different things, and you think...
1050
00:58:56,784 --> 00:58:59,619
"God, what a big foot, Harvey.
I never realized you had such a big foot."
1051
00:58:59,704 --> 00:59:04,999
And so then I went around
to City Hall in the front...
1052
00:59:05,084 --> 00:59:08,128
and there these...
a lot of media people.
1053
00:59:08,212 --> 00:59:11,214
And the thing that struck me
the most was...
1054
00:59:11,298 --> 00:59:13,321
I don't know. I guess,
again, this expressive
1055
00:59:13,322 --> 00:59:15,343
southern Italian
background I have.
1056
00:59:15,428 --> 00:59:20,348
I thought people would be going "Ahh!"
but instead it was quiet.
1057
00:59:20,433 --> 00:59:23,351
It was silent.
1058
00:59:37,658 --> 00:59:40,160
We got back, and my roommate
picked us up at the airport, and he said...
1059
00:59:40,244 --> 00:59:43,079
"There's gonna be a candlelight march.
Do you want to go to it?"
1060
00:59:43,164 --> 00:59:45,165
And we said, "Of course."
1061
00:59:45,249 --> 00:59:47,625
So he said, "Well, by now
it's probably reached City Hall."
1062
00:59:47,710 --> 00:59:50,044
So we drove directly
from the airport to City Hall...
1063
00:59:50,129 --> 00:59:52,964
and there were
maybe 75 people there.
1064
00:59:53,048 --> 00:59:58,553
And I remember thinking, "My God,
is this all that anybody cared?" you know.
1065
00:59:59,555 --> 01:00:02,766
And somebody said,
"No, the march hasn't gotten here yet."
1066
01:00:02,850 --> 01:00:05,977
So we then walked
over to Market Street...
1067
01:00:06,061 --> 01:00:08,897
which is two or three blocks away,
and looked down it.
1068
01:00:08,981 --> 01:00:13,777
Market Street runs in a straight line
out to the Castro area.
1069
01:00:13,861 --> 01:00:15,862
And as we turned the corner...
1070
01:00:15,946 --> 01:00:18,072
there were people...
1071
01:00:18,157 --> 01:00:22,035
as wide as this wide street,
as far as you could see.
1072
01:00:56,987 --> 01:01:00,365
Thousands and thousands of people...
1073
01:01:00,449 --> 01:01:04,452
and that feeling of such loss.
1074
01:01:05,621 --> 01:01:09,707
Having lost someone
who was so important... and some thing.
1075
01:01:09,792 --> 01:01:13,378
Harvey stood for something
more than just him.
1076
01:01:30,354 --> 01:01:33,731
The combination
of Harvey being killed...
1077
01:01:33,816 --> 01:01:35,817
and going down
with all those people...
1078
01:01:38,153 --> 01:01:41,114
I don't know if you call it
"expressing your grief" or what it was...
1079
01:01:41,198 --> 01:01:43,241
but being
with all those people, and...
1080
01:01:45,035 --> 01:01:47,871
it's nighttime in San Francisco,
and a bunch of strangers around you...
1081
01:01:47,955 --> 01:01:50,373
and you feel as safe
as you do in your own home.
1082
01:02:12,062 --> 01:02:16,691
And there was this black man on the
corner of... whatever... Noe there...
1083
01:02:16,775 --> 01:02:19,777
and he kept shouting,
"Where is your anger?
1084
01:02:19,862 --> 01:02:22,447
Where is your anger?
Where is your anger?"
1085
01:02:22,531 --> 01:02:24,532
And, you know,
I didn't know where it was.
1086
01:02:24,617 --> 01:02:26,242
I think that all of us
at that time...
1087
01:02:26,327 --> 01:02:31,122
were in such a, a, a state of shock,
you know, that...
1088
01:02:31,206 --> 01:02:33,750
I don't know if it was numbed
or we were anesthetized.
1089
01:02:33,834 --> 01:02:35,835
Certainly I was angry...
1090
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:39,505
but it seemed appropriate
to do this...
1091
01:02:39,590 --> 01:02:42,425
peaceful, kind of internalized thing...
1092
01:02:42,509 --> 01:02:45,845
out of some kind of respect
for the enormity of what happened.
1093
01:02:45,930 --> 01:02:49,724
It was one of the most
eloquent expressions...
1094
01:02:49,808 --> 01:02:53,686
of a community's response
to violence that I've ever seen.
1095
01:02:55,189 --> 01:02:57,732
I think we
as lesbians and gay men...
1096
01:02:57,816 --> 01:03:00,109
and all of the straight people
who were marching with us that night...
1097
01:03:00,194 --> 01:03:02,320
and there were thousands...
1098
01:03:02,404 --> 01:03:04,405
I think we said it.
1099
01:03:04,490 --> 01:03:06,908
I think we sent a message
to the nation that night...
1100
01:03:06,992 --> 01:03:09,160
about what our immediate
response was.
1101
01:03:09,244 --> 01:03:11,204
Not violence...
1102
01:03:11,288 --> 01:03:15,583
but a certain respect for Harvey...
1103
01:03:15,668 --> 01:03:20,713
and a deep... a deep regret
and feeling of tragedy about it...
1104
01:03:20,798 --> 01:03:23,174
because Moscone
had been our friend as well.
1105
01:03:34,228 --> 01:03:36,479
And then going down to City Hall...
1106
01:03:36,563 --> 01:03:39,440
that tremendous expanse of people.
1107
01:03:39,525 --> 01:03:43,987
And I turned to John and I said,
"Harvey would have loved this!"
1108
01:03:44,071 --> 01:03:46,906
When we kind of tried
to get close to the stage...
1109
01:03:46,991 --> 01:03:48,992
and I saw friends up there
and I thought...
1110
01:03:49,076 --> 01:03:51,077
"Oh, I just can't go face anybody."
1111
01:03:51,161 --> 01:03:55,289
I started to cry, and everyone started
to cry. It was just so touching.
1112
01:03:55,374 --> 01:03:58,001
I'm gonna start to cry now.
1113
01:03:58,085 --> 01:04:02,714
But there's a statue down there,
and everyone put candles...
1114
01:04:14,309 --> 01:04:16,936
You know, several people,
right that following week...
1115
01:04:17,021 --> 01:04:20,023
came out of the closet
because they had been there...
1116
01:04:20,107 --> 01:04:24,110
and they had seen,
you know, all of the people...
1117
01:04:24,194 --> 01:04:27,989
and they had felt
that they had been living a lie.
1118
01:04:28,073 --> 01:04:31,034
Sorry, better stop.
I don't know if I can...
1119
01:04:31,118 --> 01:04:35,455
They really felt so moved
that they came out to people...
1120
01:04:35,539 --> 01:04:38,374
and said,
"Did you know that I'm gay?"
1121
01:04:38,459 --> 01:04:41,627
And, um,
I was so touched by it...
1122
01:04:41,712 --> 01:04:45,631
because that's what Harvey
had stood for...
1123
01:04:45,716 --> 01:04:50,428
and it took his death
for them to realize that...
1124
01:04:50,512 --> 01:04:52,472
They just came out.
1125
01:04:52,556 --> 01:04:56,559
No one would fire them from their jobs,
because it's against the law...
1126
01:04:56,643 --> 01:04:58,644
and they could
still live a life...
1127
01:04:58,729 --> 01:05:02,774
and yet that part of our society
that's very closed could open.
1128
01:05:44,108 --> 01:05:46,526
On Thursday, November 30...
1129
01:05:46,610 --> 01:05:50,905
George Moscone's funeral
was held at St. Mary's Cathedral.
1130
01:05:50,989 --> 01:05:53,407
On Saturday, December 2...
1131
01:05:53,492 --> 01:05:58,121
Harvey Milk's ashes were scattered
into the Pacific by his friends.
1132
01:06:06,755 --> 01:06:10,133
Today we went looking for clues
to why White would kill the mayor...
1133
01:06:10,217 --> 01:06:12,969
who refused
to reappoint him to his post...
1134
01:06:13,053 --> 01:06:15,555
and a supervisor
who opposed him politically.
1135
01:06:15,639 --> 01:06:17,932
We didn't find any.
1136
01:06:18,016 --> 01:06:20,184
For many years,
the Whites lived on London Street...
1137
01:06:20,269 --> 01:06:22,395
in the southeast sector
of San Francisco...
1138
01:06:22,479 --> 01:06:24,730
which White served
during his few months on the board...
1139
01:06:24,815 --> 01:06:26,774
and where he was raised.
1140
01:06:26,859 --> 01:06:29,569
Among their neighbors
on London Street were the Cooks.
1141
01:06:29,653 --> 01:06:32,905
I don't know. I don't know. He, he...
1142
01:06:33,866 --> 01:06:36,868
He must have went off the deep end,
because he was just a nice guy.
1143
01:06:36,952 --> 01:06:38,995
Did he ever show
any signs of cracking up?
1144
01:06:39,079 --> 01:06:43,166
No, nothing. He was all-American boy,
as far as I was concerned.
1145
01:06:43,250 --> 01:06:45,543
I never did see him
really argue with anybody.
1146
01:06:45,627 --> 01:06:48,337
I think he was
a very family-oriented man.
1147
01:06:48,422 --> 01:06:50,882
Catholic.
He went to church all the time.
1148
01:06:50,966 --> 01:06:53,342
He was very devoted to the job.
1149
01:06:53,427 --> 01:06:56,429
And I don't think he had
any grudge towards anybody.
1150
01:06:56,513 --> 01:06:58,848
I don't think anybody
disliked him, that I knew of.
1151
01:07:00,267 --> 01:07:03,102
Five months
after the assassinations...
1152
01:07:03,187 --> 01:07:05,605
Dan White went on trial.
1153
01:07:07,858 --> 01:07:11,694
Couldn't see how the trial would last
more than... more than a day.
1154
01:07:11,778 --> 01:07:13,946
Such a cut-and-dried thing.
1155
01:07:14,031 --> 01:07:18,576
You know, there was... You'd follow
the newspapers, but no big deal.
1156
01:07:18,660 --> 01:07:20,870
He was automatically
gonna be guilty...
1157
01:07:20,954 --> 01:07:23,789
and go to San Quentin
the rest of his life, you know.
1158
01:07:23,874 --> 01:07:25,917
Anybody knew that.
1159
01:07:28,128 --> 01:07:33,257
As the trial and the jury
selection started...
1160
01:07:35,427 --> 01:07:39,639
I sort of developed
this sense of doom...
1161
01:07:39,723 --> 01:07:42,600
that justice was not
going to prevail...
1162
01:07:42,684 --> 01:07:45,645
because
the jury selection process...
1163
01:07:45,729 --> 01:07:49,148
excluded gay people...
1164
01:07:49,233 --> 01:07:53,152
minority residents,
and anyone who may have had...
1165
01:07:53,237 --> 01:07:58,032
a political point of view
that would be different from Dan White.
1166
01:07:58,116 --> 01:08:00,117
And I don't want
to knock the jury system...
1167
01:08:00,202 --> 01:08:04,705
because I do believe
in the jury system...
1168
01:08:04,790 --> 01:08:07,917
but once you knock
all these people out...
1169
01:08:08,001 --> 01:08:10,002
what does that leave you with?
1170
01:08:10,087 --> 01:08:13,756
We had turned this over
to be taken care of...
1171
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:18,177
to a system that was actually in many ways
responsible for these assassinations.
1172
01:08:18,262 --> 01:08:20,138
So there's this little
feeling in your
1173
01:08:20,139 --> 01:08:22,014
stomach when you get
afraid and you think...
1174
01:08:22,099 --> 01:08:24,058
"What am I gonna do,
you know, personally?
1175
01:08:24,142 --> 01:08:26,394
What are we gonna do?
He's in the hands of the cops."
1176
01:08:26,478 --> 01:08:31,315
The prosecution
argued a simple motive: revenge.
1177
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:33,776
Detailing the facts
of the crime...
1178
01:08:33,860 --> 01:08:38,239
the state spent three days proving
that Dan White committed the murders.
1179
01:08:38,323 --> 01:08:43,744
White's own lawyers had already
admitted this in their opening statement.
1180
01:08:43,829 --> 01:08:45,830
To prove its case...
1181
01:08:45,914 --> 01:08:49,542
the prosecution played a tape
of Dan White's confession...
1182
01:08:49,626 --> 01:08:52,003
but the tactic backfired.
1183
01:08:52,087 --> 01:08:55,673
Some of the jurors
wept in sympathy for White.
1184
01:08:56,717 --> 01:08:59,802
I've been
under an awful lot of pressure lately.
1185
01:08:59,886 --> 01:09:03,806
Financial pressure
that affected my job situation.
1186
01:09:05,309 --> 01:09:07,310
Family pressure.
1187
01:09:07,394 --> 01:09:10,771
Not being able to have the time
with my family.
1188
01:09:11,898 --> 01:09:14,066
The mayor never called me.
1189
01:09:14,151 --> 01:09:17,236
He told me he was gonna call me
before he made any decision.
1190
01:09:17,321 --> 01:09:19,780
He never did that.
1191
01:09:19,865 --> 01:09:22,783
It was only on my...
my own initiative...
1192
01:09:22,868 --> 01:09:25,161
when I went down today
to speak with him.
1193
01:09:26,121 --> 01:09:28,497
I was troubled.
1194
01:09:29,958 --> 01:09:32,752
The, the pressure, my...
The family again.
1195
01:09:32,836 --> 01:09:35,212
My, my son's out to a babysitter.
1196
01:09:35,297 --> 01:09:38,758
My wife's gotta work long hours.
1197
01:09:40,135 --> 01:09:43,262
You know, I just was going
to the mayor to see...
1198
01:09:43,347 --> 01:09:45,598
if he was gonna reappoint me...
1199
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:50,436
just all the time knowin' he was gonna
go out and lie to the press...
1200
01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:54,440
and tell 'em, you know,
that I wasn't a good supervisor...
1201
01:09:54,524 --> 01:09:56,525
and that people
didn't want me and...
1202
01:09:57,736 --> 01:10:00,404
And then that was it. Then I...
1203
01:10:00,489 --> 01:10:02,448
I just shot him.
1204
01:10:02,532 --> 01:10:06,452
And then it struck me
about what Harvey had tried to do...
1205
01:10:06,536 --> 01:10:09,872
and I said,
"Well, I'll go talk to him."
1206
01:10:09,956 --> 01:10:12,458
I said, "At least maybe
he'll be honest with me."
1207
01:10:12,542 --> 01:10:14,919
And he was all smiles and stuff
when I went in.
1208
01:10:15,003 --> 01:10:19,256
He knew I wasn't going
to be reappointed and, uh...
1209
01:10:19,841 --> 01:10:22,301
he just kind of smirked at me...
1210
01:10:22,386 --> 01:10:25,971
as if to say, "Too bad."
1211
01:10:26,056 --> 01:10:29,225
And then...
1212
01:10:29,309 --> 01:10:32,645
And then I just got
all flushed and hot...
1213
01:10:32,729 --> 01:10:34,772
and I shot him.
1214
01:10:34,856 --> 01:10:38,984
Now, if Dan White wants
to save himself from the death penalty...
1215
01:10:39,069 --> 01:10:42,696
he's going to have to prove that
he didn't plan to kill anyone that day.
1216
01:10:42,781 --> 01:10:45,408
Prosecutors say he did
premeditate the murders...
1217
01:10:45,492 --> 01:10:47,827
because on that day
he put his gun on...
1218
01:10:47,911 --> 01:10:50,579
and he put a bunch
of extra bullets into his pocket.
1219
01:10:50,664 --> 01:10:54,542
Then he got into City Hall here
by climbing in this window...
1220
01:10:54,626 --> 01:10:58,629
knowing he couldn't get his gun past
the metal detector in the main entrance.
1221
01:10:58,713 --> 01:11:03,008
Prosecutors say this shows he was
planning to do something suspicious.
1222
01:11:03,093 --> 01:11:05,177
White's lawyer claims
it's common for people...
1223
01:11:05,262 --> 01:11:07,513
to try to get
into City Hall this way...
1224
01:11:07,597 --> 01:11:10,766
that Dan White was only
carrying a gun to protect himself...
1225
01:11:10,851 --> 01:11:13,310
and that other supervisors,
including Feinstein...
1226
01:11:13,395 --> 01:11:15,771
have carried guns for protection.
1227
01:11:15,856 --> 01:11:18,524
But if he was only trying
to protect himself that day...
1228
01:11:18,608 --> 01:11:22,194
why did he put all those
extra bullets into his pocket?
1229
01:11:22,279 --> 01:11:25,865
It will be interesting to see
how the defense tries to explain that.
1230
01:11:25,949 --> 01:11:28,200
You told the jury that...
1231
01:11:28,285 --> 01:11:31,203
although he had the gun
with him, the .38...
1232
01:11:31,288 --> 01:11:34,373
he had no intention of shooting
anyone at City Hall, correct?
1233
01:11:34,458 --> 01:11:36,375
That's correct.
1234
01:11:36,460 --> 01:11:40,921
And that other supervisors carried
weapons with permits. Is that correct?
1235
01:11:41,006 --> 01:11:42,923
Well, I didn't mention
"with permits"...
1236
01:11:43,008 --> 01:11:46,177
but I did say that other supervisors
and perhaps other City Hall personnel...
1237
01:11:46,261 --> 01:11:50,014
do carry firearms presently
and have carried them in the past, yeah.
1238
01:11:50,098 --> 01:11:52,850
Do you know if the other people
who do carry weapons...
1239
01:11:52,934 --> 01:11:55,644
also carry ten extra rounds
in their pocket?
1240
01:11:55,729 --> 01:11:58,189
I think ex-police officers...
1241
01:11:58,273 --> 01:12:01,150
and certainly police officers,
on or off duty...
1242
01:12:01,234 --> 01:12:03,360
carry extra ammunition, yes.
1243
01:12:03,445 --> 01:12:08,741
And that is also why you say he reloaded
after shooting Mayor Moscone.
1244
01:12:08,825 --> 01:12:10,826
That is what I said, yes.
1245
01:12:10,911 --> 01:12:14,163
Now, clarify that though... because
of his experience as an ex-police officer.
1246
01:12:14,247 --> 01:12:16,499
Yes, I think it was more instinctive
than anything else.
1247
01:12:17,542 --> 01:12:19,960
White was portrayed as an idealist...
1248
01:12:20,045 --> 01:12:22,546
disgusted
with the corruption of politics...
1249
01:12:22,631 --> 01:12:25,508
a man who felt the city
was deteriorating...
1250
01:12:25,592 --> 01:12:28,010
as a decent place
for San Franciscans to live.
1251
01:12:30,180 --> 01:12:33,432
Defense attorney Doug Schmidt
told the jury...
1252
01:12:33,517 --> 01:12:36,852
"Good people,
fine people with fine backgrounds...
1253
01:12:36,937 --> 01:12:39,480
simply don't kill people
in cold blood.
1254
01:12:39,564 --> 01:12:41,982
It just doesn't happen."
1255
01:12:42,067 --> 01:12:47,404
A key witness for the defense
was Dan White's wife, Mary Ann.
1256
01:12:47,489 --> 01:12:52,034
I knew the types of pressure...
1257
01:12:52,118 --> 01:12:54,119
that Danny was under.
1258
01:12:54,204 --> 01:12:58,040
I felt the pressure myself, and...
1259
01:12:58,124 --> 01:13:01,043
I think when this occurred,
I felt more for Danny...
1260
01:13:01,127 --> 01:13:03,128
than I did for myself
or anyone else.
1261
01:13:03,213 --> 01:13:06,590
I really did. I just felt so much
that I wanted to do something for him.
1262
01:13:06,675 --> 01:13:09,802
Do you foresee a point in the future...
1263
01:13:09,886 --> 01:13:13,347
where your life can return
to some degree of normalcy?
1264
01:13:13,431 --> 01:13:15,432
Oh, yes.
1265
01:13:15,517 --> 01:13:19,645
I firmly believe that there's...
1266
01:13:19,729 --> 01:13:23,440
something for us good
that will come out of this.
1267
01:13:23,525 --> 01:13:27,403
White's lawyers introduced
the testimony of five psychiatrists...
1268
01:13:27,487 --> 01:13:31,073
to prove that he acted while
in a state of severe depression...
1269
01:13:31,157 --> 01:13:35,077
induced in part by consuming
too much junk food.
1270
01:13:36,246 --> 01:13:40,291
His attorneys argued he had killed Moscone
and Milk in the heat of the moment...
1271
01:13:40,375 --> 01:13:42,334
and that under the law...
1272
01:13:42,419 --> 01:13:44,962
the charges against him
should be reduced...
1273
01:13:45,046 --> 01:13:47,840
from murder to manslaughter.
1274
01:13:47,924 --> 01:13:50,884
The trial concluded
in just eleven days.
1275
01:13:51,052 --> 01:13:53,178
You do expect surprises...
1276
01:13:53,263 --> 01:13:56,098
and to be ready
and open-minded for surprises...
1277
01:13:56,182 --> 01:13:59,685
the shocking fact
that he did this...
1278
01:13:59,769 --> 01:14:01,854
and you might also have
the shocking fact...
1279
01:14:01,938 --> 01:14:03,939
that there was some
extenuating circumstances...
1280
01:14:04,024 --> 01:14:06,025
or some reason
why he was innocent.
1281
01:14:06,109 --> 01:14:08,111
So you're ready for that
kind of possibility,
1282
01:14:08,112 --> 01:14:10,112
but I thought he
might get the chair.
1283
01:14:11,281 --> 01:14:13,532
I remember
rushing out of the courtroom...
1284
01:14:13,617 --> 01:14:15,576
and the news was on line,
waiting for the verdict.
1285
01:14:15,660 --> 01:14:18,871
I remember thinking to myself,
"Try to look like you're not so shocked."
1286
01:14:18,955 --> 01:14:21,373
Jeannine Yeoman's right here.
What is it?
1287
01:14:21,458 --> 01:14:25,544
Yes, the jury has found Dan White
guilty of voluntary manslaughter...
1288
01:14:25,629 --> 01:14:29,381
in the killings of both
George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
1289
01:14:29,466 --> 01:14:34,219
That's a verdict that carries two, three,
or four years on each of those counts.
1290
01:14:34,304 --> 01:14:36,305
He also could receive two years each...
1291
01:14:36,389 --> 01:14:38,599
for using a gun
in the commission of the crime.
1292
01:14:38,683 --> 01:14:40,851
And once again to repeat...
1293
01:14:40,935 --> 01:14:44,647
that is the verdicts that White's attorney,
Doug Schmidt, had asked the jury to return.
1294
01:14:44,731 --> 01:14:48,734
Dan White could now receive
anywhere from four to 12 years in prison...
1295
01:14:48,818 --> 01:14:51,278
with a possibility
of parole after...
1296
01:14:51,363 --> 01:14:54,406
We have received word that
a demonstration has been called...
1297
01:14:54,491 --> 01:14:57,660
for 8:00 this evening
in front of City Hall...
1298
01:14:57,744 --> 01:15:00,287
to protest
the Dan White verdict.
1299
01:15:00,372 --> 01:15:04,124
I was really outraged, and I...
1300
01:15:04,209 --> 01:15:06,251
was going to go
down to City Hall...
1301
01:15:06,336 --> 01:15:08,420
and I didn't go to City Hall...
1302
01:15:08,505 --> 01:15:11,757
because I had to run home
to take care of our kids.
1303
01:15:11,841 --> 01:15:13,884
But I had this strong sense.
1304
01:15:13,968 --> 01:15:16,261
I said, "Someone
has to say something."
1305
01:15:16,346 --> 01:15:20,182
That's our justice system.
He got away with it. Eight years.
1306
01:15:20,266 --> 01:15:23,227
If you kill a public official...
Especially if I did. What would I get?
1307
01:15:23,311 --> 01:15:27,398
I'm an old lady.
I won't be here very much longer.
1308
01:15:27,482 --> 01:15:31,443
And I would not like to be here
and see him walking the streets.
1309
01:15:31,528 --> 01:15:35,072
- You don't want him to get out?
- No. After killing two men, no.
1310
01:15:35,156 --> 01:15:38,283
It was a challenge
to your own personal value system.
1311
01:15:38,368 --> 01:15:40,495
You know, politically correct...
"I'm against
1312
01:15:40,496 --> 01:15:42,621
capital punishment. I
mean, my goodness."
1313
01:15:42,706 --> 01:15:45,124
And then all of a sudden,
all you want is blood revenge.
1314
01:15:45,208 --> 01:15:47,292
Certain people who were
considered leaders...
1315
01:15:47,377 --> 01:15:49,336
certain men and women of the gay
community who were saying...
1316
01:15:49,421 --> 01:15:52,423
"Now, now, calm down.
Justice will be served."
1317
01:15:52,507 --> 01:15:55,592
I went, "Oh, come on!
Stop it! Stop it!"
1318
01:15:55,677 --> 01:15:59,138
"City Hall, City Hall, City Hall!"
It was like a beat, a rhythm.
1319
01:15:59,222 --> 01:16:02,099
And going down Market Street,
disrupting traffic.
1320
01:16:02,183 --> 01:16:05,644
We want justice! We want justice!
1321
01:16:05,729 --> 01:16:09,148
We want justice!
1322
01:16:09,232 --> 01:16:14,528
He got away with murder!
He got away with murder!
1323
01:16:14,612 --> 01:16:19,324
We want justice!
We want justice!
1324
01:16:19,409 --> 01:16:22,161
Remember Harvey Milk!
Remember Harvey Milk!
1325
01:16:22,245 --> 01:16:25,414
Dan White's a pig!
Dan White's a pig!
1326
01:16:25,498 --> 01:16:27,875
Dan White's a pig!
1327
01:16:27,959 --> 01:16:31,670
The people united will never be defeated!
The people united...
1328
01:16:34,799 --> 01:16:37,050
...almost an uncontrollable situation.
1329
01:16:37,135 --> 01:16:41,847
Find out if you've got any more squads.
Send me more help.
1330
01:16:41,931 --> 01:16:43,849
No more violence!
1331
01:16:43,933 --> 01:16:47,352
No more violence!
No more violence!
1332
01:16:51,065 --> 01:16:53,901
By about 11:20,
things had gone from good to bad...
1333
01:16:53,985 --> 01:16:55,903
to good and to very bad.
1334
01:16:55,987 --> 01:16:58,655
There's a narrow perimeter
of shaky policemen...
1335
01:16:58,782 --> 01:17:01,241
on my left over here
in front of City Hall.
1336
01:17:01,326 --> 01:17:04,661
Behind them, and sometimes in the
midst of them, are the demonstrators.
1337
01:17:04,788 --> 01:17:07,790
Every once in a while, a demonstrator,
a protestor, will come out of the crowd...
1338
01:17:07,916 --> 01:17:11,043
throw a piece of burning material
into a police car, and start it on fire.
1339
01:17:30,688 --> 01:17:33,398
You'll get a brick in your head!
You'll never know what hit you!
1340
01:17:33,483 --> 01:17:35,692
If you look right away, you can see it
coming and get out of the way.
1341
01:17:40,532 --> 01:17:42,574
What we have tonight is a...
1342
01:17:42,659 --> 01:17:45,202
a mob out of control,
and I think it's a tragedy.
1343
01:17:45,328 --> 01:17:47,830
I think it's gonna set, uh, back...
1344
01:17:47,956 --> 01:17:51,667
the, uh, fight for human rights
a great deal.
1345
01:17:51,793 --> 01:17:55,170
And I must tell you
that if persons are arrested...
1346
01:17:55,296 --> 01:17:57,047
for the crimes that have been
committed tonight...
1347
01:17:57,173 --> 01:17:59,591
my office is gonna prosecute them
to the fullest extent of the law.
1348
01:17:59,676 --> 01:18:01,969
If you remember,
the violence that started all this...
1349
01:18:02,053 --> 01:18:04,096
was Dan White's violence.
1350
01:18:04,180 --> 01:18:07,182
I feel that the jury
was violent this afternoon...
1351
01:18:07,308 --> 01:18:11,061
by treating Dan White in a way
that nobody's ever gonna believe...
1352
01:18:11,187 --> 01:18:14,022
they would have treated
a black person or a gay person...
1353
01:18:14,107 --> 01:18:17,192
or someone who did not fit
Dan's type image.
1354
01:18:17,318 --> 01:18:19,570
They were saying
that the spirit of Dan White...
1355
01:18:19,696 --> 01:18:21,697
with all of its pettiness,
all of its meanness...
1356
01:18:21,823 --> 01:18:25,033
and all of its violence
right below the surface is okay...
1357
01:18:25,118 --> 01:18:28,620
and in so doing
were very violently attacking...
1358
01:18:28,705 --> 01:18:31,498
the memory of George Moscone
and Harvey Milk.
1359
01:18:31,583 --> 01:18:35,794
We are reacting with anger
because we are angry.
1360
01:19:22,967 --> 01:19:25,469
People were outraged
because it was property.
1361
01:19:25,595 --> 01:19:29,806
You know, this great institution
of the free world... We dared!
1362
01:19:29,933 --> 01:19:33,769
You can replace a goddamned glass door.
You can replace a chandelier, right?
1363
01:19:33,853 --> 01:19:36,939
You can replace a police car.
But you can't replace Harvey.
1364
01:19:44,489 --> 01:19:47,324
Feeling the rage
and the, the, the...
1365
01:19:47,408 --> 01:19:49,409
the extreme emotions...
1366
01:19:49,494 --> 01:19:51,662
that seemed to be coming
from all of those folks...
1367
01:19:51,788 --> 01:19:53,789
I was right with 'em.
1368
01:19:53,915 --> 01:19:56,708
I was right with 'em in saying
I... you know...
1369
01:19:57,961 --> 01:20:00,128
"There is no justice
here today...
1370
01:20:00,254 --> 01:20:02,297
and anything that we do
is absolutely fine."
1371
01:20:02,382 --> 01:20:04,424
And then I thought...
1372
01:20:04,509 --> 01:20:06,885
"You know, that's not it.
That's not the way."
1373
01:20:06,970 --> 01:20:11,390
And something of a bit
of a cooler head came upon me.
1374
01:20:11,474 --> 01:20:13,517
I guess I thought about Harvey...
1375
01:20:13,643 --> 01:20:15,644
who had said many times
that he didn't want violence...
1376
01:20:15,770 --> 01:20:18,313
to follow in the footsteps
of anything that happened to him.
1377
01:20:36,708 --> 01:20:39,459
What the verdict did...
1378
01:20:39,544 --> 01:20:44,172
to our sensitivity
was to say...
1379
01:20:44,298 --> 01:20:48,677
"You know, it's not important
to be civil in American society.
1380
01:20:48,803 --> 01:20:51,888
And it's not important to honor
other people's right...
1381
01:20:52,015 --> 01:20:54,016
as long as you are white...
1382
01:20:54,142 --> 01:20:58,395
and you uphold certain
white, middle-class values...
1383
01:20:58,521 --> 01:21:01,940
because you're gonna get away with murder.
You're gonna be condoned."
1384
01:21:02,025 --> 01:21:07,571
I think if it had just been
Moscone that got killed...
1385
01:21:07,697 --> 01:21:09,698
I think he would have been
guilty of murder...
1386
01:21:09,824 --> 01:21:13,452
and been in San Quentin
the rest of his life.
1387
01:21:13,536 --> 01:21:18,373
But sad to say, I think there's
a lot of people in this world...
1388
01:21:18,499 --> 01:21:21,793
that still think
if you kill a gay...
1389
01:21:21,878 --> 01:21:23,920
you're doin'
a service to society.
1390
01:21:24,047 --> 01:21:26,048
I think I'd have felt that way too...
1391
01:21:26,132 --> 01:21:30,218
if I hadn't been associated
with Harvey and the gay community.
1392
01:21:30,303 --> 01:21:32,387
I probably would have felt
the same way.
1393
01:21:32,513 --> 01:21:36,308
'Cause up till that time, I thought that
a guy that was gay was just...
1394
01:21:37,310 --> 01:21:39,311
He's not, uh...
1395
01:21:39,395 --> 01:21:41,438
You know, he's not us.
1396
01:21:41,564 --> 01:21:46,026
And I remember
when I used to hear about...
1397
01:21:46,110 --> 01:21:49,488
the cops would go into gay bars
years ago and rough up the gays...
1398
01:21:49,572 --> 01:21:51,615
and I thought,
"What's wrong with that?"
1399
01:21:51,741 --> 01:21:54,743
You know?
"That's, that's okay."
1400
01:21:56,287 --> 01:21:58,371
And I think the majority
of people felt that way...
1401
01:21:58,456 --> 01:22:00,499
and I think a lot of people
still feel the same way.
1402
01:22:00,583 --> 01:22:02,501
And it's a shame.
1403
01:22:03,586 --> 01:22:08,924
Dan White was released
from prison on January 7, 1984.
1404
01:22:09,050 --> 01:22:11,259
He served 5 1/2 years...
1405
01:22:11,344 --> 01:22:15,222
and received no psychiatric
treatment in prison.
1406
01:22:20,686 --> 01:22:23,605
Somewheres
in Des Moines or San Antonio...
1407
01:22:23,689 --> 01:22:25,899
there's a young gay person...
1408
01:22:25,983 --> 01:22:29,236
who all of a sudden realizes
that she or he is gay...
1409
01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:32,155
knows that
if their parents find out...
1410
01:22:32,281 --> 01:22:34,282
they'll be tossed
out of the house.
1411
01:22:34,367 --> 01:22:37,452
The classmates
would taunt the child...
1412
01:22:37,578 --> 01:22:41,039
and the Anita Bryants and John Briggs
are doing their bit on TV.
1413
01:22:41,124 --> 01:22:44,501
And that child
had several options:
1414
01:22:44,627 --> 01:22:47,420
staying in the closet,
suicide...
1415
01:22:47,505 --> 01:22:50,465
and then one day that child might
open up a paper and it says...
1416
01:22:50,550 --> 01:22:52,843
"Homosexual elected
in San Francisco"...
1417
01:22:52,969 --> 01:22:54,803
and there are two new options.
1418
01:22:54,929 --> 01:22:57,305
One option
is to go to California...
1419
01:23:02,645 --> 01:23:05,522
...or stay in San Antonio
and fight.
1420
01:23:05,648 --> 01:23:08,984
Two days after I was elected,
I got a phone call...
1421
01:23:09,110 --> 01:23:11,570
and the voice was quite young.
1422
01:23:11,654 --> 01:23:14,656
It was from
Altoona, Pennsylvania.
1423
01:23:14,740 --> 01:23:17,826
And the person said, "Thanks."
1424
01:23:17,952 --> 01:23:21,204
And you've got
to elect gay people...
1425
01:23:21,330 --> 01:23:24,207
so that that young child,
and the thousands upon thousands...
1426
01:23:24,333 --> 01:23:26,960
like that child...
1427
01:23:27,044 --> 01:23:30,589
know that there's hope
for a better world...
1428
01:23:30,673 --> 01:23:32,883
there's hope
for a better tomorrow.
1429
01:23:33,009 --> 01:23:36,261
Without hope, not only gays,
but those blacks...
1430
01:23:37,513 --> 01:23:39,181
and the Asians...
1431
01:23:39,307 --> 01:23:43,351
and the disabled, the seniors...
the "us's."
1432
01:23:44,896 --> 01:23:48,857
The "us's."
Without hope, the "us's" give up.
1433
01:23:48,941 --> 01:23:51,860
I know that you cannot live
on hope alone...
1434
01:23:51,944 --> 01:23:54,821
but without it
life is not worth living.
1435
01:23:54,906 --> 01:23:58,950
And you, and you, and you...
1436
01:23:59,035 --> 01:24:02,120
have gotta give 'em hope.
Thank you very much.125388
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