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Pag 18 S.F. EXAMINER Nov. 27, 1978 11 'il 'W I I III. mill IIIIHIIIM.M .01 If 1 .1 Moscone, Milk shot to death in City Hall 'Hi' It ft mkr rn a 1 1 i nrmaWil 'liaiirii tiiihfiiif tm reappointment and White said he would try to muster support and demonstrate that to the mayor. Wax said he was concerned earlier today that Horanzy and White could have come to Moscone's -office at the same time.

"I thought it would be an unpleasant scene for both of them," he said. After the shootings, police questioned employees in Moscone's office. Peter Nardoza, an aide to Feinstein, said he saw White leave Moscone's office at 10:45 or 10:50 a.m. Then, Nardoza said, White walked over to Harvey Milk's office and knocked on the door. He quoted White as saying, "Harvey, may I see you for a minute?" Milk came out, Nardoza said, and the two walked down to White's office and closed the door.

Nardoza said he heard "two to five" shots and saw White running out Nardoza said he didnt whether White was carrying a weapon. Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver said she heard Feinstein say to White about then, "I want to talk to you." According to Silver, White replied, "I've got to talk to Harvey." Terri Wallen, an aide to Supervisor John Molinari, said that shortly before the shootings began. White ran into an office full of supervisors' aides shouting: "Give me my keys. Give me my keys." White was given the keys to bis office and ran off, Wallen said. "He was a wild man, Just a wild man," a sobbing Wallen recounted.

After his confrontation with White ran about 50 yards to the office of his aide, Denise Apcar, according to an aide to Supervisor Robert Gonzales. la excitable fashion, White demanded Apcar's car keys and then ran off. Apacar's 1975 blue Opel was parked on the McAllister Street ramp beside City Hall. Apcar immediately called White'sVif to report From Page 1 supervisors' suite of offices on a stretcher covered with a white sheet. White was Interrogated by Inspector Frank Falzon, a boyhood friend.

Earlier, when White was brought to the Hall of Justice, he refused to talk to reporters, saying: "I've got no comment." White's wife, Mary Ann, appearing to be in shock, and his lawyer, James Purcell, also were at the Hall of Justice. Police said a Smith 1 Wesson revolver was used In the shootings. White's supervisorial seat in District 8 remains vacant, Feinstein said, although Moscone had planned to announce Horanzy's appointment today. City Attorney George Agnost said the city charter requires the Board of Supervisors now to select a permanent replacement for Moscone. If that replacement is a supervisor, Agnost said, the new mayor will have to fill three vacant seats on the board.

White, elected in November 1977, quit 17 days later. He said the salary wasn't enough to support his wife and 4-month-old son. White had resigned as a city firefighter as a condition of remaining on the board. After announcing his resignation as supervisor, White, 32, changed his mind. He said he wanted the board job back because his 16 brothers and sisters had offered him up to $10,000 in loans to tide him over.

A delegation of White supporters had gone to the mayor's office today and left by 10 a.m. Horanzy, a top contender for White's seat, bad an 11 a.m. appointment with Moscone. He said that when he got to City Hall, police were surrounding the mayor's of fice. He never got inside.

ExaminerPaul Gtmea The mayor's wife, Gina, is consoled by Mary Lou Giannini and her husband, close friends of the Moscones Wordless fear and then screams Pi with his description of events, his face drained. A small, middle-aged woman standing by doors of Room 202. grabbed a huge City Hall worker and embraced him, her eyes full of tears. Don Horanzy, the. man who Moscone intended to to name to the seat formerly held by Dan White, was in City Hall with members of his family.

Moscone had asked Horanzy to show up at 11 a.m. An 11:30 press conference had been scheduled. While news of the mayor's assassination was going out over the press wires ad radio stations, the mayor's wife, Gina, and his mother, Lee. were at a funeral in Santa Rosa and did not know what had happened. At 1 p.m., the mayor's wife and mother arrived at the Moscone From Page 1 officers and private police were roaming the second floor of City Hall.

Word filtered through the cavernous granite and marble building, but the massage was garbled. City Hall workers asked reporters what had happened. But reporters could tell them little. Then, board President Dianne Feinstein, somber and shaken, walked out into the hallway that connects the mayor's office with that of the supervisor's chambers. In a small, cracking voice, she delivered the news: The mayor and Milk were dead.

People screamed in horror. Feinsteins's voice was drowned out by the shock and pries! City Hall employees drifted out of their offices, going nowhere wanting to know and to understand. Hundreds of people stood outside City Hall on both sides of Polk Street, just standing, waiting quietly, even after it was known that Moscone and Milk were In the supervisors chambers, where the secretaries sit, sobs could be heard for hours afterward. When details had to be given, Moscone's press secretary, Mel Wax, a one-time City Hall reporter, provided them. Those who were there were impressed by his coolness and his calm.

During one press briefing, Wax was asked, "Would you speak up?" He Responded "No," and kept on Supervisor Harvey Milk shot here Back entrance One door open with guard, all others locked Van Ness Avenue I I City 4 roaming police home. Their black limousine went up the driveway to the side of the house. Lee Moscone got out, followed by Gina Moscone, who appeared to stumble and then collapse into the arms of a friend. Several priests were present, including James McKay, the Police Department chaplain. The Moscone house was guarded by police.

Services for Moscone, Milk are scheduled Memorial services have been scheduled for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, ho were slain at City Hall today. A memorial mass was scheduled for 5:15 p.m. today at St Mary's Cathedral for Moscone. His funeral will be held at the cathedral on Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. The cathedral office also announced that the traditional recitation of the rosary for the deceased will take place in the cathedral at 8:15 p.m.

tomorrow. A march in honor of slain supervisor Milk will begin at 8:30 tonight at the corner of 19th and Castro streets, spokesmen for the gay community said today. Marchers will go to the east steps of City Hall, where at 10 p.m. they will hold a silent vlgiL Persons who attend are encouraged to bring candles to the vigil. Flowers are inapproproate under Jewish rites, a spokesman said.

i Another memorial service will be held for Milk at the Gay Community Center at 330 Grove Street at 8 tonight. Another S.F. mayor a shooting victim Mayor Moscone is not the only chief executive of San Francisco to have been involved with shooting and violence. In 1879, then-mayoralty candidate Isaac Smith Kalloch, a Baptist minister, was wounded in his church by Charles de Young, owner and editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Basement delivery and entrance Basement delivery and entrance, open with guard Mayor Moscone shot first in office on second floor Mel Wax, Moscone's press secretary, said White came in to see the mayor about 10:45 this morning to find out whether he would be reappointed to the Board of Supervisors.

White and Moscone met in the mayor's back office, Wat said. Cyr Coppertinl, the mayor's secretary, asked the mayor whether he wanted someone from the mayor's staff with him. He did not. Wax said. Wax said Coppertinl heard three shots.

"I suppose he was killed instantly," Wax said. Coppertinl, according to Wax, thought the shots she heard were the sounds of a car backfiring and looked out the window. Ten minutes later, Moscone's body was found by Rudy Nothen-berg, a deputy mayor, who had an 11 a.m. appointment with the mayor. Nothenberg walked Into the mayor's office and saw Moscone lying on the floor.

He had Been shot in the head and in an arm, Nothenberg said. Wax said Moscone apparently was killed in a sitting room just behind his main office. Nothenberg ran into the mayor's, outer office, according to Wax, and said: "The mayor has been shot Call the police." No weapon found in the office and Wax said neither he nor anyone else in the mayor's office had seen White leave. The last time Moscone had spoken with White was a week ago, on Nov. 18, according to Wax.

Moscone told White then that there was considerable opposition to hs i Outer office Mayor's office Polk Street Reception room 2000 his agitated behavior, the aide said. Police officer Warren Omholt said White walked in the front door of the Northern Station at 1125 a.m. White said nothing, according to Omholt, and was taken into custody in the lobby. Since the People's temple massacre nine days ago, security at City Hall has been beefed up, but today the police were all in Moscone's outer office after the shootings. City Hall was in chaos.

At least 40 police officers formed a cordon around Moscone's office and carried on the investigation inside. A large crowd gathered outside the Polk Street entrance to City Hall. At Moscone's home on St. Francis Boulevard, police were guarding both entrances and trying to reach family members. Police commander Gus Brune-man said Moscone's sons, Christopher, 15, and Jonathan, 13, were brought home from St.

Ignatius High School. Daughter Rebecca, 17, was on her way home from UC-Berkeley. White, at 32 the youngest member of the Board of Supervisors, is a former police officer and firefighter. He had to resign from the fire department when he was elected as a representative of the 8th District, which includes Visitation Valley, where he grew up. Moscone, 49, became San Francisco's 37th mayor in January 1976 and was planning to run for reelection next fall.

He began his political careet on the Board of Supervisors in 1963. In 1966, he won a seat in the State Senate and in 1970 and 1974 won re-election by large majorities. Milk, 48, was elected to the Board of Supervisors in November 1977, becoming the first openly gay member of that board. Milkr who devoted his career to furthering gay rights, said he was the state's only elected gay official. Autopsies on Milk's and Moscone's bodies were being performed this afternoon by Coroner Boyd Stephens.

Front entrance One door open with guard, all others locked Exarntner graphics But guards unaware of shooting Mayor had tightened security It was not clear how Supervisor Dan White, the. man arrested in connection with the shooting of Moscone and of Supervisor Harvey Milk, may have taken the murder weapon inside the building. City Hall sources said, however, that all supervisors and other prominent city officials have keys to a side entrance not protected by the metal detector installed on the building's two main entrances on Polk Street and Van Ness Avenue. Security precautions at City Hall, which for years have included screening of visitors with metal detectors at both main doors, had been beefed up in the last week at Mayor Moscone's request. The mayor requested additional police protection after the Peoples Temple incidents in Guyana, press aide Mel Wax said.

But today, when the mayor was slain in his inner office, the additional officers assigned to assist Moscone's personal police bodyguard were in the mayor's reception area, unaware of the shooting. the metal detector or without being challenged even if the detector was set off by a weapon. "The regulars the mayor, the supervisors and many of us ho work in here are never stopped no matter what the machine does," the aide said. It was not clear this afternon whether the supervisors also had been assigned special security as a result of the People? Temple events. The supervisors' office suite, in the rear of their ornate meeting chambers, does not normally have armed guards.

An aide in Moscone's office theorized that White might have entered City Hall through one of the main entrances without passing I I i i i i i i i i I I Geary Former Supervisor Dan White turned himself in here II 11 O'Farrell I I I JT Eddy Police Station Golden Gale McIn.sJ 5 Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk I I I il shot here x. "Grove Ul I S. yr City Ha Jyty Tribute by Molinari to slain friends Information from this story came from Examiner reporters Alan Cline, Maura Dolan, Carol Pogash, Connie Kang, Russ Cone, Ken Wong, Pat Konley, Richard Barnes, Ann Nakao, Lynn Ludlow, Gerald Adams, Sydney Kossen, Donald Cantor, Larry Dum, Norman Melnick, Tom Emch, Pam Brunger, Jim Wood, Richard Saltus, Jim Vaszko, Corrie Anders, Ivan Sharpe, Mary Crawford, Raul Ramirez, James Finefrock, Bill Burk-hardt, Nancy Dooley and Carl Irving and was coordinated by Jim Willse, Fran Dauth and Steve Cook. pects of the city. He wasnt a one-issue or gay-only oriented supervisor, as some had suspected he would be." After the shooting today, Molinari, fellow Supervisor Dianne Feinstein and City Attorney George Agnost drove to Moscone's home in St.

Francis Wood to speak with the mayor 's widow. "She was numb, and so are we," Molinari said. leadership abilities even in those days. He carried these qualities through his life. We were of different political philosophies, but I always considered him my As for Milk, Molinari said he had grown to like and respect him during Milk's service on the board.

"He evidenced himself as a supervisor concerned about all as Supervisor John Molinari today mourned the death of a lifelong friend, Mayor George Moscone, and that of Supervisor Harvey Milk as a respected colleague. Molinari, 43, grew up in the old Italian quarter of San Francisco, the North Beach, in George Moscone's neighborhood. "He was always the big kid on the playground and showed his Examiner graphics.