- He was Valedictorian of his class in High School.
- Opened an unsuccessful potato restaurant, the Hot Potato, at San Francisco's Pier 39 a few months before he committed the assassinations.
- Irish-American.
- Served seven years in The Army and achieved the rank of Sergeant.
- Outrage at the lenience of his sentence sparked the White Night riots.
- The Dead Kennedys' song "I Fought the Law (and I Won)" is about his trial and sentencing. They recorded it to protest White's return to San Franscisco after completing his sentence.
- He had also planned to kill Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver and future San Francisco mayor Willie Brown.
- Is portrayed by Josh Brolin in Milk (2008).
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