Where is george moscone buried

We wouldn't have had to fight for five years" to win those requirements. He decided to swim upstream. He chose to make history.

At great odds, he made a valiant stab at it. For his part, Nothenberg -- who spent many years working for both Moscone and Feinstein -- is weary of attempts to place Moscone in some large historical scheme. First and foremost, this was a personal tragedy -- he was cut down leaving a family and friends. Attends Catholic schools -- first St. Brigid's and then St. Ignatius High, where he is an all-city basketball star.

Earns his law degree from the University of California 's Hastings Law School and starts his private law practice in following a stint in the Navy.

In John Burton introduces Moscone to his brother Assemblyman Phillip Burton , who consults with Moscone and decides he will make a good candidate in a Assembly race against Republican Milton Marks.

Moscone loses that race but then gets elected to the Board of Supervisors, where he serves from to In Moscone is elected to the state Senate. Colleagues pick him to be majority leader, a post he holds until he is elected mayor in He pushes through landmark legislation on bilingual education , sex between consenting adults, marijuana decriminalization and hot meals for needy schoolchildren. In he is an unannounced candidate for governor, but pulls out of the race before the Democratic primary after realizing he has no chance of beating Jerry Brown.

In December , Moscone is elected mayor of San Francisco. I wanted to determine how carefully I had covered my tracks, or see which friend would give out my address. A little while later, Lee Cole called again and told me my address -— he said that he had obtained it from the voter registration files —- so I told him to come over.

In the course of our conversation, I mentioned my theory that Jim Jones had served as a pimp at City Hall and maintained power by implied blackmail. Edgar Hoover used to manipulate top politicians with his juicy FBI files. So Jim Jones had taken Margo St. They completely shut down traffic on Broadway. But there was not a word about that event in any of the media.

It was knocked totally out of the news by the massacre in Jonestown. Jonestown and Kool-Aid continue to serve as occasional joke references for stand-up comedians and metaphors for politicians and pundits alike.

Paul Krassner is the editor of The Realist. November 18 th marks the 33 rd anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. They deserve peace. After all, George Moscone was number one on their hit list. New from CounterPunch. Jeffrey St.

Clair Roaming Charges: General of Deception. Richard Moser Workers are Walking Out. Jacob G. The morning in the Moscone home was the typical hectic family rush.

Mother, Gina, fixing breakfast. Kids bolting their food down. Their father, George Moscone, running late for work. Tomorrow, a noon ceremony at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco will mark the 20th anniversary of what happened later that morning -- the assassination of Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Christopher Moscone, brother Jonathan and sisters Jenifer and Rebecca will be there with their mother, Gina. Last week, all four children talked of their father's death in rare interviews.

For Christopher, then a year-old junior, events began unfolding before noon that day when the St. Ignatius athletic director and another school official summoned him from a classroom. He followed them and met up with Jonathan, a year-old freshman. A firefighter drove them to their house in St. Francis Wood in a department car. Jonathan remembers mostly silent images, no sound. Someone -- maybe the firefighter -- asked to use a phone in the house. Christopher asked the man: "What's going on?

Edmund G. Brown Jr. Moscone told Mr. Armstrong said that he wouldn't mind being Mayor one day himself. Armstrong quoted Mr. Moscone as saying. Armstrong said that when he recalled this incident to Mr. Plans for choosing successors to Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk were in abeyance today, but the scramble for the Mayor's job, and for the seats held by Mr.

Milk and Mr.