dan white, like george moscone, grew up in san francisco, but where is george grew up in the morning, dan who grew up in the southeast corner of the city and those faded neighborhoods where if you stand on the hilltop and look down over the visitation valley, you can see sheets and underwear flapping on hundreds of clothesline all of the sheets well-worn. he had absolutely no background in politics. he had been -- he had wanted to be a writer, he had become a policeman, he had become a fireman come eventually he became a city supervisor. but he only had a high school the education, and therefore, he brought with him to the city hall a kind of high school civics idea of how politics was conducted. dan white was very naive coming and he thought the way that would work in the board of supervisors was that every supervisor but forward his ideas, and the best ideas would prevail. george moscone and harvey milk knew better than that. the new the idea that would prevail was the idea that had six votes because they were living members of the board of supervisors and that in order to be succes

and timber of commerce, a lot of people put pressure to change his mind so he went back to lou george moscone who did not like to say no and explained and said i will give you your job back but that did not sit well with george's constituents including harvey who said that is your job. you'll never be reelected because stan white is the magical number six if you return him then we liberals will lose those of the votes. so he changed his mind and promised and why he would tell him his decision but he did not do that. and found out because of a reporter called him at home than the next day george moscone would appoint somebody else to his seat. for me, the key moment is understanding dan white. the first people i talk to were his friends and colleagues that describe him as a leader and gung-ho in to talk to the high school baseball coach and he had taken a 70 because he had lost his father when he was about 50 nurse 16 years old. he was a little lost an angry and seeing him as a stand-up guy and he asked him then he was captain of the team that after the inning when he came into the bench he sa

mayor george moscone, whose narrow election was due in no small part to peoples temple support, repaide housing commission. >> whenever jones would say the slightest thing, a short speech, a quick answer to a question, they would clap in a deafening way. just the whole meeting was stopped. i was trying to get some story of jones published. a story -- if only about his image and his kind of unusual style. it was hard to get anyone to go on the record and say, i got questions about jones because jones was so routinely useful. and because he had so many, in a way, bills that he had accumulated. >> he had a lot to hide. he was faking the healings, you know. he had millions of dollars. secreted away in various accounts throughout the world. i mean, it's not a very pretty picture of jim jones. >> and then finally some ex-members said i hear you're trying to write about the church. i hear you have a lot of questions. here's what we think you should know. >> you better get your mouth talking. slide under the table, slide under the table. get to her. >> what he began finding out stood in stark