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Stocks 3.72 1 Page 58 114th Year No. 145 EXTRA Complete stocks Monday, November 27, 1978 AM man 3- Vr- Y-Y 7 "I 7 if 4. X'' I 1 A ii -rtnif iii A -1 Associated Pres3 A BODY IS REMOVED FROM CITY HALL Later, the second victim was carried out it By James A. Finefrock Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were shot and killed today at City Hall and troubled ex-Supervisor Dan White was booked for investigation on two counts of murder. The shootings occurred about 11 this morning as Moscone was preparing to hold a press conference naming Don Horanzy, a real estate loan officer, to replace White on the Board of Moscone was shot in his office.

Milk was shot in White's office, where White had invited his political opponent to talk. Police Sgt. Syd Paton said White was booked this afternoon for investigation on two counts of murder. White had wanted to be reappointed to the Board of Supervisors, but Moscone had decided not to do so and Milk was the leader of the opposition to White. The announcement that Moscone and Milk were dead was made by a shaken and tearful supervisors President Dianne Feinstein.

She now becomes acting mayor. Police said three bullets were found in each body. About a half-hour after the shootings, White turned himself in to police at Northern Station and was taken to the Hall of Justice. After a 90-minute interrogation at the Hall of Justice, he was taken to the seventh-floor city prison by six policemen. Wearing a tan three-piece suit, White looked grim and nervous.

He bit his lips and shook his head occasionally. Witnesses said White was acting "like a madman" before he met with Milk. At about 11:20 a.m., Feinstein walked out of the mayor's office with Police Chief Charles Gain and confirmed that Moscone and Milk had been shot to death. Feinstein was shaking so badly that Chief Gain had to support her. The crowd around them gasped and shouted when the news was announced.

Feinstein later issued a statement that began: "Today San Francisco has experienced a double tragedy of immense proportions." Flanked by other supervisors and city officials, Feinstein said she had heard three shots coming from White's office, where Milk was killed. She said she expects to be a witness at the trial, that she has made a full statement to Chief Gain and district attorney's investigators, and has been instructed to say no more. The mayor's body was taken out of his office on a gurney. A priest had gone through a back door to the mayor's office at 11:40 a.m. When he came out five minutes later, he said Moscorie asn't there.

Just after noon, Milk's body was removed from the See Back Page, Col. 5 Photo by John Storey 198, San Francisco Chrootcle FORMER SUPERVISOR DAN WHITE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY POLICE. After the City Hall slayings, he turned himself in at Northern Station 4 blocks away Screams of shock shatter wordless waiting at City Hall The five or so reporters in the room ran to the mayor's office, but by then that part of the building had completed dictating the announcement that Don Horanzy would become the new supervisor when he heard these words: "The mayor's been shot." The word hadn't come instan bad been sealed off by police of every description. Joyce Bonifeld, aide to Carol Ruth Silver, recalled the By Carol Pogash The reporters had headed over to City Hall for what was likely to be a front page story. Mayor George Moscone had decided not to reappoint Dan White to his old seat as supervisor but to give the job to a newcomer.

The mayor's office had handed out press releases in advance to The Examiner and other news outlets with early deadlines. Examiner reporter Alan Cline taneously. Feinstein takes over as mayor Dianne Feinstein, as president of the Board of Supervisors, immediately assumes the powers of mayor until the board itself decides otherw ise. According to section 3.100 of the City Charter, the supervisors (as a body) have the obligation of choosing someone to fill the unexpired portion of Mayor Moscone's term, which would have ended at the close of 1979. In other words, there will be no election to choose his successor until next year.

Until the supervisors have met to decide the matter, however, the charter provides that the president of the Board of Supervisors assumes the office. Next in the line of succession are the chairman of the finance committee (Quentin Kopp) and the senior member of the Board (Ron Pelosi). If the supervisors cannot agree on a successor, the president of the board will remain as mayor, according to Mel Wax, Moscone's press secretary. Feinstein will exercise two functions, according to City Attorney George Agnost, that of acting mayor as well as president of the board. s.ene: "About ten (minutes) to 11, I was going downstairs to the assessor's office when I saw two policemen running upstairs.

One had a rifle or a shotgun and hollered to the other, 'It's the mayor's I went right back to our office and said, 'God, this is really wierd "Then I went with Barbara Dawson (another aide), and we saw Peter to Supervisor Feinstein) outside the supervisors' office. "He shouted, 'Something's happened. Harvey's been City police, City Hall security White had entered the mayor's private room. The two had talked. Something that sounded like shots or perhaps a car backfiring had been heard by the mayor's secretaries on the other side of the wall.

The secretaries had checked out the window and noticed nothing amiss. It wasn until the man waiting to see the mayor next, budget analyst Rudy Nothenberg, opened the mayor's door that the body of George Moscone was found shot in the head and arm. Moments later, reporters received a call in the City Hall press room. "The mayor's been shot," they were told. Index Arts, Films.

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