Mayor’s Assassin Dead (Press, 23 October 1985)
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Summary: Mayor’s Assassin Dead (Press, 23 October 1985)
Dan White, the assassin of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, was found dead on 22 October 1985 at his home in San Francisco. Police reported that he appeared to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning. White had served five years of a seven-year prison sentence after being convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the 1978 murders of Moscone and Milk. He was paroled in January 1984. In the trial that followed the murders, White's defence team famously employed the "Twinkie Defence," claiming that his consumption of junk food was indicative of his severe depression at the time of the killings.
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