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.