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Finding Aid to the Mike Weiss Double Play Collection, 1961-2011
SFH 34
SFH 34
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Title: Mike Weiss
Double Play Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1961-2011
Date (bulk): (bulk 1978-1983)
Collection Identifier: SFH 34
Creator:
Weiss, Mike, 1942-
Physical Description:
4 boxes + 1 oversized flat box
(4.5 cubic feet)
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA, 94102
(415) 557-4567
info@sfpl.org
Abstract: The collection contains the research material Weiss collected for his book
Double Play: the San Francisco City Hall Killings. The book recounts the events surrounding Dan White's assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and San Francisco
Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978, and White’s trial in 1979.
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
The collection is open for research. Please call the San Francisco History Center for hours and information at 415-557-4567.
Copyright and literary rights retained by Mike Weiss.
[Identification of item], Mike Weiss
Double Play Collection (SFH 34), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
The Mike Weiss
Double Play Collection was loaned to The San Francisco Public Library by Mike Weiss in 1990, with ownership legally deeded to the library
in December 2009. Tom Carey created an inventory of the collection in 1990. The Dan White trial transcripts were donated in
April 2011. In November 2011, Vince Emery donated a folder labeled "Sources," 1 audio CD, 1 DVD, the advance reading copy
of the 2nd edition of
Double Play, and a poster for an author appearance sponsored by Books, Inc.
The four audiocassette tapes in Series 4 were duplicated by SFPL Media Services in 2000.
Mike Weiss is a newspaper journalist and author. He was raised in New York City and educated at Knox College and Johns Hopkins
University. He has been a staff writer at
The Baltimore Evening Sun,
The San Jose Mercury News and
The San Francisco Chronicle, and has written for numerous magazines in the United States and abroad, including
Rolling Stone,
Esquire, the
Village Voice,
Mother Jones and
The Sunday Correspondent of London. He is the author of the Ben Henry mystery novels as well as three works of non-fiction,
Living Together,
Double Play and
A Very Good Year.
The collection contains the research material Weiss collected for his book
Double Play: the San Francisco City Hall Killings (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1984). There are interview notes, copies of San Francisco Police department documents, newspapers,
correspondence, and audiotapes relating to Dan White's assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and San Francisco
Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978, and White's trial in 1979.
The collection is arranged in 5 series: Series 1: Interview Notes; Series 2: Research Files; Series 3: Book Files; Series
4: Audiovisual Materials; and Series 5: Newspapers. Photographs were separated and are stored with the San Francisco Historical
Photographs collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Milk, Harvey
Moscone, George, d. 1978
White, Dan
Murder victims--California--San Francisco--Biography.
Murder--California--San Francisco--Case studies.
Murderers--California--San Francisco--Biography.