Video: 'Milk/Moscone Assassinations News Compilation'

(Monday, November 27, 1978, 10:40-11:00 a.m. PST; during the Moscone–Milk assassinations) — San Francisco Mayor George Moscone was shot to death in his office at City Hall this morning, and a few minutes later, Supervisor Harvey Milk, the city’s first acknowledged gay official, was shot and killed in an office on the other side of City Hall.

Moscone and Milk were killed by former Supervisor Dan White, who was angry that Moscone had refused to reappoint him to his seat on the Board of Supervisors, from which he had just resigned, and that Milk had lobbied heavily against his reappointment.

Dianne Feinstein, as president of the Board of Supervisors, acceded to the Mayor’s office, becoming the first female to serve in office.

Video: 'Moscone-Milk Killings 25th Anniversary: Milk and Moscone - Assassination at City Hall. (KRON-TV)'