The State - News from Nov. 15, 1985

Suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning was confirmed by the San Francisco coroner’s office as the cause of death of former Supervisor Dan White, the assassin of Mayor George R. Moscone and fellow Supervisor Harvey Milk, the nation’s first openly gay elected official. White served five years of a seven-year sentence for the 1978 crimes and was released from parole last January. His body was found last month in a car in the garage of his wife’s Excelsior District home. A garden hose had been taped to the exhaust pipe and the other end was jammed into a crack in one of the car’s windows.