“As president of the Board of Supervisors, it's my duty to make this announcement. Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.”

— Dianne Feinstein

November 27, 1978
After the Moscone-Milk assassinations

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