Remember This?

My, how things have changed, or not. Interesting that the first suspicion was cast on the recently self-destroyed People's Temple movement. We forget how close in time these 2 events were. Interesting that most of the coverage at the time is devoted to Mayor Moscone, and Milk only gets a mention toward the end. Curious that it will be Milk whose memory would loom larger and larger over time, with all due respect to Mayor Moscone. We also forget how conservative San Francisco politics were at one time.

Does anyone outside the right wing press use the term "homosexual" anymore?

I watched this newscast in 1978. I was in my second year of art school in Kansas City. I was 20 at the time.

UPDATE:

Here's a picture of Harvey Milk from around 1957

I just came back from Milk. In a word, riveting.
It brought back lots of memories, and not just about Harvey or the '70s.
I remember hearing about Milk and his campaigns against Anita Bryant and the Briggs amendment, and for city supervisor when I was a 20 year old twinky cruising the bars in KC. But, I don't know how I knew about it. There was no gay press there at the time, not even bar rags. I did pay attention to all the Anita Bryant news (it was damn scary back then), so that may be where I heard about him.
The movie made me think of all the marches and political actions I attended for the last 25 years, and all the people I knew and met through them.

I should make a correction.
I was in my FIRST year of art school. I forgot about that year-long stint I did working and going to community college right after I graduated high school.