Crosshairs

Episode 3 : Harvey Milk

Politics is a dirty business. Bringing about change requires fighting tooth and nail and that can make you
enemies, something Harvey Milk, San Francisco Supervisor and America’s first openly gay politican, knew all
too well. On a cold November morning in 1978, ex-supervisor Dan White, who felt the so-called ‘Mayor of
Castro Street’ had played a key role in the premature demise of his own political career, shot and killed his
former friend in San Francisco City Hall.
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With one squeeze of a trigger, or flash of a blade, the course of history can change forever.
In this series - we tell the stories of assassinations throughout history, plotting the path of the killer and victim, step by step, until they meet. We examine the fall out, following the assassination of world leaders. We reveal how cultural icons were targeted, and why. And we unpack stories which you may never have heard about before.
From What's the Story Sounds - and narrated by Jonathan Guy Lewis - Crosshairs is your weekly dose of crime and history, with new episodes every Thursday.