U.S. Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy speaks to the audience during a campaign event at the Cow Palace in Daly City on Nov. 2, 1960. | OpenSFHistory | Source: OpenSFHistory
No president of the United States was born in San Francisco, but Warren G. Harding died here. One hundred years ago this August, the scandal-plagued Harding was on a tour of the West when he suffered a cardiac event in the Palace Hotel. Decades later, in September 1975, Sara Jane Moore fired two shots at Gerald Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel—a mere 17 days after another attempt on Ford’s life.
U.S. President Richard Nixon walks out onto the Lake Merritt station BART platform in Oakland after a short trip on the train on November 1972. | Larry Tiscornia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
Not every president has a brush with the Grim Reaper when they visit the Bay Area, however. Richard Nixon took a ride on a brand-new BART. Ronald Reagan hosted a dinner for Queen Elizabeth II at the de Young Museum. Bill Clinton campaigned on a cable car. And while running for reelection in 2012, Barack Obama famously made a pit stop at Chinatown dim sum palace Great Eastern Restaurant, dashing in to get some takeout dumplings.
View their visits in pictures.
U.S. President Barack Obama carries out lunch during a surprise visit to Great Eastern Restaurant for dim sum in San Francisco's Chinatown on Feb. 16, 2012. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
About 80 skilled trade workers who maintain San Francisco's public schools will strike Monday over unpaid wages and other grievances with the district going back two years.
Cal State execs still say their pay lags behind the national average while it has grown at a greater rate than that of faculty.
University president pay has increased at a greater rate than that of faculty, who are preparing to strike in early December, and the system is raising tuition. Yet, Cal State execs still say their pay lags behind the national average.
Authorities are currently investigating the three separate murders that unfolded between Sunday and Wednesday in which all of the victims were without permanent housing, according to LAPD.
