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IT WAS 21 years ago this Saturday that Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated in their City Hall offices by a former supervisor named Dan White. November 27, 1978, was the most shocking day in one of the most violent and surreal decades in San Francisco history.
When asked how San Francisco had changed since then, Tom Ammiano said, "It's the old clich, everything's the same, everything's different."
Moscone's friend Willie Brown was the last man besides White to see Moscone alive. Brown is now the mayor, challenged in a heated race by Ammiano, a gay activist who worked with Milk and now is president of the Board of Supervisors.
Terrorism is pretty much limited to the scratching of expensive cars in poor neighborhoods, but the threat of violence is still real in the form of death threats to both candidates.
There's something eerie and ironic here, on this 21st anniversary of the shootings in City Hall, but there's something complete, too, something rounded, something wonderful. It may sound corny, but Milk and Moscone live. Jim Rivaldo can't forget that horrible day. He was about to take a walk with his friend Milk. Aside from White, Rivaldo was the last person to see Milk alive.
"Harvey and I were...