The Twinkie defense: when junk food became a murder excuse and broke a city.
On November 27, 1978 San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were killed by their colleague, Supervisor Dan White. The murder tore San Francisco's political scene apart and made people question whether junk food, Twinkies, could drive someone to murder.
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Connects personal tragedy to systemic rot with surgical precision.
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Archival footage hits like a gut punch every time.
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The 'Twinkie defense' became cultural shorthand for absurd legal strategies, though White's lawyers actually argued diminished capacity from depression and dietary changes—not that sugar made him murder.
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