Former KCBS Radio fixture Barbara Taylor has died due to complications from a car crash that she suffered in the South Bay last year.
Taylor covered San Francisco City Hall and the city’s political scene, which included the Jonestown massacre and the assassinations of then-Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
Furthermore, Taylor’s coverage of the deaths became immortal in the 2008 Academy Award-winning film “Milk.”
“She wasn’t afraid to ask the tough questions,” former KCBS Radio Reporter Bob Melrose said. “One of her favorite lines, when you go to a news conference with her, was ‘Well, that’s all well and good, but,’ and then she’d get into the real question. Inevitably, that was the lead for the news conference, the question she asked.”
Her colleagues in the media weren’t the only ones to pass on their condolences. California Governor Gavin Newsom, Senator Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, and State Senator Scott Wiener were among politicians to have words for Taylor after hearing about her death.
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