John Eshleman Wahl, attorney for Harvey Milk and longtime gay activist, died in April of a heart attack in Palm Springs. He was 76.
After completing undergraduate work at UC Berkeley and his discharge from the Navy, where flew radar recognizance missions over China, he attended the Hastings Law School in San Francisco and received his Jurist Doctorate degree. He was the primary counsel for the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, winning a landmark case which insured the rights of the primarily gay and lesbian Christian church to minister to inmates at state and federal prisons. He also represented the families of the victims of the Jonestown massacre, securing and releasing funds from the Reverend Jim Jones’s personal financial resources to provide transport, process, and burial services for the bodies.
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