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The US Navy ship headed for Gaza is named... WHAT?
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I never heard about Harvey Milk before, so i went to check him on wiki, first sentence was:
My first thought was "Gay man elected to office in USA in 70's? I wonder if they killed him for that"
And of course:
I lived in the Bay Area at that time with my family. I wasn't quite a teen yet. That day I saw footage of a crying woman on the news speaking about the murders. It freaked me out because she looked a lot like my mom. Luckily she did not sound like my mom - or I would have been really freaked out. There was only a facial resemblance. Her name was Dianne Feinstein but at the time - of course - I didn't care about that.
If remember correctly - Jonestown massacre happened the same month. That freaked me out too because I never thought mass death of people "near" me near could happen. Of course they were 1,000s of miles away in Guyana but they had lived in the Bay Area too just like me.
Back to the murders and Dan White. His lawyers used bullshit later called the Twinkie defense. The bullshit helped him get a reduced sentence. Because he was a "clean cut" white guy and an ex-cop and firefighter - he was sentenced to seven years. Public protests over the verdict led to the White Night Riots.
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After White's sentence was up - he wanted to go back to SF but he did his parole in LA. And then he went back to SF.
The happy ending is after he was back in SF - he committed suicide.
There’s a really great documentary on this called “The Times of Harvey Milk” that’s well worth watching.
They had yet to perfect the heart attack gun in the 70s, but did what they had to do to stop the rainbow agenda.