Dianne Feinstein woke up on the morning of Nov. 27, 1978, a relative unknown. The president of San Francisco’s board of supervisors, the then-45-year-old was a prominent local figure, but far from the positions of power and influence she would later hold for decades.
Dianne Feinstein woke up on the morning of Nov. 27, 1978, a relative unknown. The president of San Francisco’s board of supervisors, the then-45-year-old was a prominent local figure, but far from the positions of power and influence she would later hold for decades.
Then shots rang out in San Francisco’s City Hall, a burst of violence that left Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk dead.
“It was one of the hardest moments, if not the hardest moment, of my life,” Feinstein, who died Thursday night at age 90, told SFGate in a 2008 interview marking the 30th anniversary of the murders by former Supervisor Dan White.
On that fateful day, Feinstein had returned to work following a three-week absence. While she was away, White had submitted his resignation from the board, citing the low salary that he said required him to work a second job and prevented him from properly serving his constituents.
