Before we get started a quick warning this episode contains strong language descriptions of violence and

gay slurs it also mentions suicide it may not be appropriate for all listeners.

The verdicts just come in for the killings of George Moskoni and Harvey Milk, voluntary manslaughter on both counts.

For assassinating two public officials, Dan White was facing less than eight years in prison.

With good behavior, the former cop-turned-firefighter could get out in five.

His argument that he'd lost control of his emotions, in part because of all the Twinkies he ate,

had convinced a jury of his peers.

Harvey Milk's intern, Cleve Jones, was gobsmacked, but he pulled himself together enough

to share a message with a television reporter.

That's what I said. the reaction will be tonight.

If you care about justice, come to Castro Street now.

And then I went back to my apartment to get the bullhorn.

That bullhorn had a history.

Harvey spoke through many bullhorns over his career, but he only owned one.

And it was the one that was given to him by the Teamsters in recognition of his leadership

in the Corps beer boycott.

It has a rather prominent dent into a, you know, which came from a police baton at a Teamsters

picket line.

And then when he got elected, he gave it to me.

And he said, I'm going to be inside.

You're going to be outside screaming.

Cleave had screamed into that bullhorn at all the marches he'd led in San Francisco over the past year,

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