Talk:Moscone-Milk assassinations

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I think the edit should be enough to take down the copy-edit request. I have improved syntax and flow and corrected several inaccuracies: White was found guilty of manslaughter and paroled in 1984; Feinstein did not claim that she was Mayor in her announcement of the murders. I wondered about keeping two sections for each man's murder, but left that intact. Opinions? --Mhatchett 15:51, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Does something about this belong in the article?

The following dialogue is quoted from "DAN WHITE'S LAST CONFESSION" by Mike Weiss. It was published September 18, 1998 in the San Jose Mercury News

"I really lost it that day," White said.

"You can say that again," Falzon answered.

"No. I really lost it. I was on a mission. I wanted four of them."

"Four?" Falzon said.

"Carol Ruth Silver--she was the biggest snake of the bunch.

And Willie Brown," White continued. "He was masterminding the whole thing."

The truth finally came out of Dan White. IT WAS PREMEDITATED MURDER. He went to City Hall that Monday morning in 1978 for the purpose of murdering Mayor Moscone, Supervisor Harvey Milk, and two other liberals, Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver, and California State Assemblyman Willie Brown. White also confessed that he had intended to kill himself, but was unable to do it. Falzon believed what he was told, but saw no sense in revealing the confession at the time. However, I think this new information tends to refute the popular opinion that homophobia was a motive in Milk's murder.

http://thecastro.net/milk/soledadpage.html

--BillyTFried 22:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I've added the relevent info to the Dan White article, which brings up another question: why does this separate article exist? There is almost no information in this article that isn't in the Dan White article. And most of what little there is would actually appropriately fit in Dan White's article. Mwelch 22:00, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, in following up I see that there is a great deal of repitition of this info not only Dan White, but also in George Moscone and Harvey Milk. That argues for this being valid as a separate article, but the info present in those other three should be scaled back accordingly. It does no good to have a "main article" if all of the articles that link to it are still going to replicate almost its entire content themselves anyway. Mwelch 22:00, 20 February 2007 (UTC)