Gerald Bryan Gainous Jr.[1] (born c.1951)[2] was a resident of Washington D.C. who climbed the fence surrounding the White House four times in 1975 and 1976 during the Ford administration.[3]
In the first incident, which occurred November 26, 1975, he was able to walk about the grounds without being stopped for about 90 minutes.[4] He approached the President's daughter, Susan Ford, as she was unloading camera equipment from her car, before carrying on.[5] He was freed on probation after that incident.
Gainous claimed he was trying to gain the President's attention in order to obtain a pardon for his father who had been convicted of conspiring to import heroin.[6]
References
edit- ^ Chaplin, Gordon (2 October 1977). "The White House Cases". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ "WHITE HOUSE ORDERS REPORT ON INTRUDER". The New York Times. 16 December 1975. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ "Young Man Again Caught Scaling White House Fence". Reading Eagle. August 16, 1976. p. 6. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ Federation of American Scientists, White House Security Review Archived 2006-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Protection of the White House Complex in the Twentieth Century
- ^ "White House fence stunt repeated: Intruder getting familiar". Calgary Herald. August 16, 1976. p. 8. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
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