Discovery Channel - 2009
These interviews were part of "Most Notorious Places," a pilot for a series on the Travel Channel in 2009, produced by Rick Dowlearn.
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Duffy Jennings, a Chronicle reporter during the dramas of the late '70s, says he's featured in the first episode of the Travel Channel's "Most Notorious Places" show. San Francisco is the first place visited by the show, which premieres Thursday.
The network's description of the show's premise: "Whether it's the Golden Dragon restaurant, where rival Chinese gangs sought bloody revenge on one another, or the locations of the Zodiac serial murders, San Francisco is home to a shocking number of notorious places." Murders, shmurders.
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KGO Radio - 11/20/2008
In connection with the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown tragedy and the San Francisco City Hall murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in November of 1978, Duffy Jennings was a guest on the Ronn Owens radio program on KGO. With Jennings on the show were former Moscone press secretary Corey Busch and Congresswoman Jackie Speier. Rep. Speier was an aide to Congressman Leo Ryan when he was assassinated on a fact-finding mission at the Rev. Jim Jones' People's Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana ten days before the City Hall killings. More than 900 Jones followers died in a mass suicide there.
San Francisco Press Club - 11/18/2008
Former Chron reporter Duffy Jennings (pictured) has written a riveting, minute-by-minute account of the moments after the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk 30 years ago at San Francisco City Hall. Unlike other retrospective pieces on the killings, Jennings tells how reporters reacted to the horrifying news. HIs piece appears on page 1 of the Chron today and here are a few paragraphs:
This is so unreal, so confusing, I think. Why won't they tell us anything? I wonder if this is connected to the mass suicides of the Peoples Temple cult at Jonestown, Guyana, only nine days before.
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The San Francisco Chronicle is tackling two 30th anniversary tragedies this month head-on with a three-day
package of stories and images, in print and online, recalling what many still consider the worst 10 days in the city's
recent history.
With Nov. 18 marking the three decades since the Jonestown mass suicide at the Peoples Temple and Nov. 27 as the
30th anniversary of the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the Chronicle sought best
to revisit both at once.
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Chronicle Video - 1/17/2008
