I think this is a good example of the negative feed back lope, and the danger's of Hyper Dimensional activity's via sugar.
This event lead to the rise of the
LBGT movement's. I remember about the
Twinkie defense and thought wow, and how unusual but obliviously made no connection back then do to a
major lack of knowledge. Clueless is in fact a better word.
Assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk, (November 27, 1978).
White then fled City Hall, turning himself in at the San Francisco's Northern Police Station where he had been a police officer.
While being interviewed by investigators, White recorded a tearful confession, stating, "I just shot him."
Trial and "Twinkie defense"
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Twinkie defense
At the trial, White's defense team argued that his mental state at the time of the killings was one of diminished capacity due to depression. They argued, therefore, he was not capable of
premeditating the killings, and thus was not legally guilty of
first-degree murder.
Forensic psychiatrist Martin Blinder testified that White was suffering from depression and
pointed to several behavioral symptoms of that depression,
including the fact that White had gone from being highly health-conscious to consuming sugary foods and drinks. When the prosecution played a recording of White's confession,
several jurors wept as they listened to what was described as "a man pushed beyond his endurance".
Many people familiar with City Hall
claimed that it was common to enter through the window to save time. A police officer friend of White claimed to reporters that several officials carried weapons at this time and speculated that White carried the extra ammunition as a habit that police officers had.
The jury found White guilty of voluntary manslaughter rather than first-degree murder.
Outrage within San Francisco's
gay community over the resulting seven-year sentence sparked the city's
White Night riots; general disdain for the
outcome of the court case led to the elimination of California's "diminished capacity" law.
[9][10] Psychiatrist
Thomas Szasz, a critic of forensic psychiatry, gave a speech to a large audience in San Francisco in June 1979 calling the White verdict a "travesty of justice" which he blamed on the diminished capacity defense.
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Alleged confession
In 1998, Frank Falzon, the homicide inspector with the San Francisco police to whom White had turned himself in after the killings, said that he met with White in 1984, and that at this meeting White had confessed that he had intended to kill not only Moscone and Milk, but another supervisor,
Carol Ruth Silver, as well as then-member of the
California State Assembly and future San Francisco Mayor,
Willie Brown. Falzon quoted White as having said,
"I was on a mission. I wanted four of them. Carol Ruth Silver, she was the biggest snake ... and Willie Brown, he was masterminding the whole thing." Falzon indicated that he believed White, stating, "I felt like I had been hit by a sledge-hammer ... I found out it was a premeditated murder."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Coca-Cola
COKE, -1.06% drinkers will get a chance to relive
one of the company’s darker chapters as New Coke makes a comeback under a partnership with the Netflix NFLX, +1.77% drama “Stranger Things,” the companies announced Tuesday.
Season 3 of the show will take place in the summer of 1985, when Coca-Cola changed its formula for Coke. New Coke was considered one of the biggest marketing blunders of all time and the new version was dropped after 79 days, though sales of the original Coca-Cola rebounded.
“The summer of 1985 did in fact change everything for us with the introduction of New Coke, which was also arguably one of the biggest pop culture moments of that year,” said Oana Vlad, director of Coca-Cola Trademark, Coca-Cola North America.
Workers had to retrieve the New Coke recipe from the safe for the
“Stranger Things” partnership.
“All told, everything took about six months and was top secret,” said Peter Shoemaker, director of sparkling category commercialization.
Workers also had to recreate the logo and the
slightly different Coke red for the cans from more than 30 years ago.
“The partnership with Coke gives Netflix the opportunity to reach a massive audience via one of the most recognizable brands in the world in a deeply authentic way,” said
Netflix Head of Global Partner Marketing Barry Smyth.
Beginning Thursday, Coca-Cola will release a limited number of cans of New Coke as part of a “Stranger Things” package.
An “upside-down” Stranger Things-inspired vending machine will also pop up in select cities this summer to dispense free cans of New Coke for a limited time.