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Pacifica Radio Archives’ “From the Vault”
Each week the Pacifica Radio Archives chooses a program "From the Vault" of broadcasts in a half-hour program.
This week on from the vault, we celebrate Gay Pride month with an important documentary from 1979 about the impact of the verdict to convict Dan White, the man who assassinated San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francisco mayor George Mascone to a lesser charge than first degree murder.
Dan White killed San Francisco Mayor, George Mascone and Supervisor, Harvey Milk, on Monday November 27, 1978. This program discusses the defense’s strategy of diminished capacity.
According to his lawyer, White, who was overly distressed about losing his position on the Board of Supervisors, acted without malice, deliberation or premeditation, the necessary conditions for a first-degree murder conviction in California. The defense strategy lead to the coining of the now famous reference “Twinkie Defense”.
Greg Gordon, of This Way Out, the international LGBT radio magazine produced this in 1979 as the events were happening. This is of the time not an afterthought. You’ll get that as soon as you hear the music used. It s definitely 1979.
With the remaining time in this program we thought we would share the 1978 interview that Greg Gordon did with Harvey Milk himself in Milk’s Castro Camera shop.
