so george moscone changed his mind. he promised dan white he was going to tell him what his decision was, but he didn't do that. dan white found out because a reporter called him at home and told him that the next day george moscone was going to be appointing somebody else to his seat. for me, a key moment in understanding dan white -- because the first people i talked to about dan white were his friends and colleagues, and they all described him to me as a leader and a man among men and the gung-ho kind of guy, but i talked to his high school baseball coach, a guy named john witte, who coached him at wilson high school and he had taken a certain -- he had sympathy with dan white because dan white had lost his father under humiliating circumstances when he was about 15, 16-years-old. he was a little bit lost and he was a little bit angry and jim would saw him as a stand-up guy and he made him the captain of the baseball team. one day jim witt told me he gave dan white the bunt sign. he asked dan white to bunt, and he kn

but the defense contended that dan white had reloaded over george moscone's body. these two people were a block apart. we all know city hall. one office on one side of city hall, the other office on the other side of city hall. the defense contended that dan white reloaded over george moscone instinctively out of his police and army training. um, that was not true. dan white reloaded just before he called harvey into his office. and once again the prosecution just, they allowed the defense to make that argument, and they didn't just shoot it down by replaying the tape where dan says i reloaded in my own office. because, clearly that would be indicative, again, of first-degree murder. i mean, if you kill somebody, now you've killed somebody, and then you run a block across city hall and then you reload your weapon and kill somebody else, well, that does seem as though it is deliberate, doesn't it? um, so again, the prosecution just, i mean, tommy norman thought he had a slam dunk case with his typical hanging jury, and it was a failure of imagination. he did not see

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