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George Richard Moscone was born in the Italian-American enclave of San Francisco's Marina District. [2] The Moscone family comes from Piedmont and Liguria. [3] His father was George Joseph Moscone, a corrections officer at nearby San Quentin, and his mother, Lena, was a homemaker who later went to work to support herself and her son after she separated from her husband.
On November 27, 1978, George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco and Harvey Milk, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, were both shot and killed inside San Francisco City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White.
Dan White was born in Long Beach, California, on September 2, 1946, [1] the second of nine children in a working-class Irish-American family. He grew up in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood of San Francisco and attended Archbishop Riordan High School, until he was expelled for violence in his junior year. [2]
George Moscone is now remembered outside of his hometown as the mayor assassinated along with Harvey Milk by a former colleague of Milk’s on the city’s Board of Supervisors on November 27, 1978.
Anne Kronenberg is an American political administrator and LGBT rights activist. She is best known for being Harvey Milk's campaign manager during his historic San Francisco Board of Supervisors campaign in 1977 and his aide as he held that office until he and mayor George Moscone were assassinated.
Feinstein was born Dianne Emiel Goldman [3] on June 22, 1933, [25] in San Francisco to Leon Goldman, a prominent surgeon, [26] and his wife, Betty (née Rosenburg), a former model. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland .
In the 1970s, Blum supported then Mayor of San Francisco George Moscone. [4] After Moscone's assassination, Blum supported the new mayor Dianne Feinstein ; they married in 1980. [ 5 ] Blum had three daughters from his first marriage to Andrea Schwartz Blum.
He fights against discrimination in the city based on sexual orientation and becomes a gay rights icon—but he and mayor George Moscone (Victor Garber) are later assassinated by another city ...