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  Dan White
Dan White resigns his elected position on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors.
Dan White murders Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone.
A judge gives Dan White only seven years for the premeditated murders of Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone, prompting thousands to march on San Francisco's City Hall.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/assassins/dan-white   (222 words)

  
  The Twinkie Defense
White's depression was used to establish grounds for a successful diminished capacity plea; and therefore White was judged incapable of the premeditation required for a murder conviction.
Dan White was convicted of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to was sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison.
Dan White was paroled on January 6, 1984 after serving 5 years and 1 month in prison for the murder of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
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 Dan White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
White and Milk were both freshman members of the Board of Supervisors under the new district election system, and they both represented areas of San Francisco whose populations had been historically ignored by the local government.
White's defense, preceded by careful jury selection, relied significantly on explicating problems in White's home life, especially that he was under a great deal of stress and had been eating an inordinate amount of junk food.
Dan White was portrayed by actor Tim Daly in the 1999 Showtime film Execution of Justice which chronicled the events leading to the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_White   (1261 words)

  
 DAN WHITE, KILLER OF SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR, A SUICIDE - New York Times
Dan White, the man convicted of shooting to death Mayor George Moscone of San Francisco and fellow Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978, committed suicide today, the police said.
White's lawyer argued that his client was mentally unstable and had a ''diminished capacity'' at the time of the shooting, in part, he argued, because Mr.
White, a San Francisco native and the second of nine children, was often referred to as ''an all-American boy'' in news accounts after the shootings.
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 Informat.io on Dan White
White's trial in 1979 was famous for inventing the so-called "Twinkie Defense." In a highly emotional confession that had been videotaped and used by the prosecution, White was barely coherent as he explained his reasons for assassinating Moscone and Milk.
White's defense relied significantly on problems in his home life, especially that he was under a great deal of stress and had been eating an inordinate amount of junk food.
According to Randy Shilts's biography of Harvey Milk ("The Mayor of Castro Street"), Milk speculated that Dan White was harboring some repressed homosexual feelings that could have explained his aggressive hostility to the gay rights movement, as well as his depression.
www.informat.io /?title=Dan_White   (1193 words)

  
 UD PBL: Dan Tries Problem-Based Learning: A Case Study
Dan greeted her, handed her a syllabus, asked her name, and pointed to the table where her group would be.
Dan had each group read the syllabus with the objective of making a list of at least five items - either suggestions for improving the syllabus or questions about the course that were not answered to their satisfaction in the syllabus.
Dan compared the student responses this year to those of the last year, when he first used problem-based learning, and to earlier years when the course had a predominantly lecture format.
www.udel.edu /pbl/dancase3.html   (4842 words)

  
 Uncle Donald's Castro Street - Supervisor Dan White
DAN WHITE was a typical all-American-boy born and raised in San Francisco.
White's defense was based on diminished capacity to understand that what he was doing was wrong.
Dan White was paroled from Soledad Prison on January 6, 1985 after serving a minimal sentence for manslaughter.
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 Reference for Dan White - Search.com
White served five years of his seven-year sentence at Soledad State Prison, and was paroled on January 6, 1984.
Dan White was portrayed by actor Tim Daly in the 1999 Showtime film Execution of Justice which chronicled the events leading to the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
Dan White and the "Twinkie defense" were mentioned in the 2006 film Half Nelson during one of the intermittent history reports by the students in the film.
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 Dr. Dan White   (Site not responding. Last check: )
White, D., K. Yoshikawa, and D.S. Garland, (2002), Use of dissolved organic matter to support hydrologic investigations in a permafrost dominated watershed, Journal of Cold Regions Science and Technology, Vol.
Woolard, C.R., N. McDonald, and D. White, (2001), “Demonstration of a single stage nanofilter for the removal of disinfection by-product precursors from an Alaskan surface water, In: Proceedings of the AWWA 2001 Annual Membrane Technology Conference, San Antonio, Texas, pp.
White, D.M., H.-Y. Zhang (2000), Temperature effect on cyanide degradation by bacteria in mine leachate, to be published in the Proceedings of the 2000 AWRA Spring Specialty Conference, May 1-4, 2000, Anchorage, Alaska, pp.
www.uaf.edu /engineer/cewhite.htm   (2307 words)

  
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White's character in Milk seems to be a metaphor for a larger cultural and institutional bias against homosexuality that was prevalent in the 1970s.
White had lost his most important issue, and he was embarrassed in front of a chamber full of Portola residents whom he had invited to witness their victory.
White told them all that he had to quit because of financial worries, and that he was through with being a supervisor.
www.sfweekly.com /2008-01-30/news/white-in-milk/print   (4734 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Legal Affairs (The Twinkie Defense)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
White, a former San Francisco city supervisor who had recently resigned his position, entered San Francisco's city hall by climbing through a basement window and then shot and killed both mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk.
White's defense was that he had been suffering from a long-standing and untreated depression that diminished his capacity to distinguish right from wrong, and thus he was not capable of the premeditation required to support a charge of first degree murder.
Junk food was used as evidence that White was depressed; White's depression was used to establish grounds for a successful diminished capacity plea; and therefore White was judged incapable of the premeditation required for a murder conviction.
www.snopes.com /legal/twinkie.htm   (643 words)

  
 Harvey Milk - Mayor Moscone - Killed By Dan White
Outraged San Franciscans responded to the court's decision to slap White on the wrist for killings (7 year sentence) by rioting at City Hall, the "White Night Riot." White was paroled in 1984 after serving just five years and a little more than a month behind bars at Soledad Prison.
Disgraced former supervisor Dan White committed suicide in the garage of this Excelsior District home after a failed attempt to return to a normal life upon his release from prison for the 1978 murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
White told Falzon he believed Moscone, Milk, Brown and Silver had conspired against his reappointment to the city council after he resigned his seat in a fit of fury.
www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews/twinkie.htm   (2017 words)

  
 White tea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
White tea is tea made from new growth buds and young leaves of the plant Camellia sinensis.
White tea therefore retains the high concentrations of catechins which are present in fresh tea leaves.
For white tea, the little buds that form on the plant are covered with silver hairs that give the young leaves a white appearance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_tea   (751 words)

  
 Myth of the 'Twinkie defense' / The verdict in the Dan White case wasn't based on his ingestion of junk food
Article:Myth of the 'Twinkie defense' / The verdict in the Dan :/c/a/2003/11/23/INGRE343501.DTL
In his daylong accounting of how White's life "unraveled," one small aspect of something Blinder said -- "two minutes of a greater part of the day on the stand" -- was later turned into the irrational explanation for everything that came after.
White reloaded his gun after shooting the mayor to death, but that, she said, is something police officers and former cops do automatically.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/23/INGRE343501.DTL   (2066 words)

  
 Guided by History: Dan White Archives
White was found guilty of manslaughter for the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk
White's defense had successfully argued "diminished capacity": White's crimes were not premeditated, but the result of stress exacerbated by junk food.
Dan White had been a conservative supervisor and had lost a political decision.
blog.wellsfargo.com /GuidedByHistory/dan_white   (361 words)

  
 KQED Arts: Profile - Dan White
Dan White is a San Francisco-based journalist, author, freelance editor and writing lecturer.
White's first book, The Cactus Eaters is a chronicle of his harrowing attempt to through-hike the Pacific Crest Trail with his then-girlfriend.
Dan White reads Operation Water Dump, a chapter from his book, The Cactus Eaters, which revolves around the extremely bad decision that inspired the book s title.
www.kqed.org /arts/people/profile.jsp?id=22705   (209 words)

  
 Dan White (I)
Dan White was born on March 25, 1908 to George & Orpha White about one...
Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960) (as Daniel White)....
Escape from Red Rock (1957) (as Daniel White)....
www.imdb.com /name/nm0924643   (455 words)

  
 Dr. Dan White
White, D.M., D.S. Garland, C.L. Ping, G. Michaelson, (2003), Progress towards remote sensing of soil organic matter quality, Tohoku Geophysical Journal, Vol.
White, D.M., H.-Y. Zhang (2000), Temperature effect on cyanide degradation by bacteria in mine leachate, to be published in the Proceedings of the 2000 AWRA Spring Specialty Conference, May 1-4, 2000, Anchorage, Alaska.
Beyer L., White D. M., Pingpank K., Bölter and Kuhn D.: Soil organic matter composition, transformation and translocation in Haplocryods (Podzols) of an ice-free terrestrial oasis in East Antarctica.
www.uaf.edu /civileng/enveng/White.html   (1463 words)

  
 Dan White - dKosopedia
Former city supervisor of San Francisco who in 1978 assasinated Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
Following a controversial defense (the "Twinkie Defense") which claimed he could not control his actions because he had been depressed and binging on junk food, White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and served five years at Soledad State Prison.
Two years after his parole he killed himself with carbon monoxide from his car's exhaust.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Dan_White   (92 words)

  
 Dan White - News, photos, topics, and quotes - Daylife
When costs go up, it especially affects a young family, because their incomes tend to be lower, said Dan White, a financial adviser in Glen Mills, Pa. With gasoline, heating and air conditioning costs heading upward, there's not a...
[White] is a pathetic guy from my point of view; he's a sad guy.
Daniel James White (September 2, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was the former San Francisco Supervisor who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978 at City Hall.
www.daylife.com /topic/Dan_White   (1197 words)

  
 Dan White - Overview - MSN Movies
Biography:In films from 1939, character actor "Dan White" trafficked in small-town blowhards and rustic constables.
Often unbilled in bit roles, White was occasionally afforded such larger roles as Deputy Elmer in "Voodoo Man" (1944), Millwheel in "The Yearling" (1946) and Abel Hatfield in "Roseanna McCoy" (1949).
The "Dan White" who appeared in 1977's "Alien Factor" is a different person.
entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?c=219490   (92 words)

  
 Dan White - Photos, Bio and News for Dan White | TVGuide.com
Dan White - Photos, Bio and News for Dan White
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Dan White gave up his job with the San...
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 Dan White: Why this exhibition?
(11/27/98) - SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty years ago today, just before 11 A.M. November 27, 1978, former Supervisor Dan White climbed through a basement window in San Francisco's City Hall, avoiding the metal detector at the main entrance.
Minutes later, he shot and killed Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, a pioneering gay rights advocate and Supervisor.
To go to the next page, click on the right wing of the phoenix at the top of the page...
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 Dan White Realtors in Pioneer California serving Amador County, Pioneer, Pine Grove, Volcano, Mace Meadows for all your ...
Dan White Realtors in Pioneer California serving Amador County, Pioneer, Pine Grove, Volcano, Mace Meadows for all your Real Estate needs.
HOME LISTINGS AGENTS CONTACT US Welcome to Dan White Realtors located in Pioneer California, next to Mace Meadow Golf Course.
Steve White, President/Broker of Dan White Realtors says “the only thing we have to offer is Service, we are not here to sell or list, but rather, to help you sell or buy”.
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 Dan White
XYWE > TV > Dan White 19 May 2005 13:15:16
Hey Dan, I just figured out a way we could get Karrde to come back.
Please respect your talk pals, avoid using obscene language, typing entire messages in CAPS, posting buy/sell ads or violating netiquette or the applicable law.
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 Dan White
Dan White shot and killed Harvey Milk and George Moscone at San Francisco City Hall on 27 November 1978.
Less well known is the fact that Willie Brown was also on White's hit list that night, and narrowly escaped certain death by just a matter of minutes.
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile
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 Danwhite.ca
The purpose of this site is to provde an area for me to express myself and where I can post information that may be of interest to the site's visitors.
This site is a place where you can explore what Dan White offers and what the man behind the scenes is all about.
I am the founder and president of WNBC, a successful business club for successful people.
www.danwhite.ca   (212 words)

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