'Double Play': Book digs beneath the Milk and Moscone killings

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Bob Bragman

Thursday, May 19, 2011


From 'Double Play / By Mike Weiss
1953: Harvey Milk in the Navy, but out of uniform. Photo: Harvey Milk Archives, Gay & Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library/From the book Double Play.

"Double Play" by Mike Weiss is a book about Harvey Milk, George Moscone, and Dan White. You know how this story ends. What is less known is why White killed Moscone and Milk and how he got off so easy. In "Double Play," Weiss provides often-shocking answers based on years of research and over 200 interviews. Weiss examined tens of thousands of public and private documents, court transcripts, psychiatrists' testimonies, Board of Supervisor's meeting minutes, newspaper coverage, personal diaries, and police reports, much of which was never available to any other investigators. 

The first edition, published in 1984, earned Weiss the Edgar Award as Best True Crime Book of the Year. The expanded and updated edition reveals additional details of White’s life after his release from prison, what happened to the major characters after the assassinations, and how the killings changed San Francisco irrevocably. It also includes 80 photographs and 10 illustrations, most never before published. See a sampling of them in our photo gallery.

The book, Double Play, by Mike Weiss, is available on Amazon (click here), and comes with a companion DVD that includes Dan White's confession, and great photos.


August 1953: Harvey Milk in uniform during his Korean War servicein the Navy. Harvey was a deep-sea diver.

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