The State - News from Nov. 29, 1985
Hundreds of marchers holding candles and signs bearing the names of AIDS victims remembered former Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, a month after the suicide of their assassin. The march from San Francisco’s predominantly gay Castro District to City Hall commemorated the shooting of Moscone and Milk seven years ago by Dan White. More than 1,000 people joined in the march. Annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the deaths of Moscone and Milk will be continued, said an organizer, Scott Smith. “White’s death may have been the close of a chapter, but there are lots of chapters in a book,” Smith said.
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