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Here’s a particular record of White House intrusions and safety breaches.
The White House grounds embrace 18 acres of land. It is a part of President’s Park, a nationwide park.
The Secret Service is answerable for White House safety.
According to the White House Historical Society, US President Thomas Jefferson was the primary to place a fence across the White House. Over the years, the fence has been up to date and fortified, with the wrought-iron fences of the nineteenth century being changed within the Nineteen Thirties by a metal fence with tall bronze spears atop it. In 2019, work began to improve the present six-foot fence to a 13-foot fence.
After a truck-bomb attack on US Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983, low concrete partitions have been put up across the White House. Bollards – sturdy, vertical posts that may cease automobiles – have been added just a few years later.
April 13, 1912 – On his second try and enter the White House to see President William Howard Taft, Michael Winter makes it a number of ft contained in the entrance door earlier than being seen.
September 26, 1963 – Doyle Allen Hicks rams his pickup truck via the gates and drives as much as inside 25 ft of the North Portico fundamental entrance. When stopped, he tells guards that he should see the president, as a result of communists are taking on his state, North Carolina.
February 17, 1974 – Robert Ok. Preston, an Army non-public, steals a helicopter from Fort Meade, Maryland. He hovers over the Washington Monument and White House grounds earlier than main two state police helicopters on an aerial chase round Maryland and Washington, DC. After greater than an hour, Preston heads again to the White House, in line with a state police officer. Officers shoot on the helicopter, forcing Preston to land. He reportedly was upset about flunking out of flight faculty.
February 22, 1974 – Samuel Joseph Byck tries to hijack a Delta passenger jet at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, with the plan to crash it into the White House. He forces his method on to the airplane, killing an airport policeman and the copilot. Byck is killed by police earlier than takeoff.
December 25, 1974 – Marshall Fields crashes his car via the Northwest Gate and drives it near the North Portico. He threatens to blow himself up with explosives he has strapped to his physique, which later transform flares. After 4 hours of negotiation, Fields surrenders to officers.
November 26, 1975 – Gerald Gainous Jr. makes his method over the fence, hides for 2 hours on the grounds undetected and is ready to get inside 5 ft of Susan Ford, President Gerald Ford’s daughter. Gainous jumps the fence three extra occasions inside the subsequent 12 months.
July 25, 1976 – Chester Plummer Jr. climbs over the White House fence carrying a metallic pipe and begins working towards the White House. A guard chases him, yelling at him to cease. When he doesn’t, the guard shoots and kills him. Plummer’s motive is just not found.
October 1978 – A barefoot man carrying a karate uniform and carrying a Bible with a knife hidden inside, scales the White House fence. He slashes two officers earlier than White House guards are capable of subdue him. The suspect, Anthony Henry, reportedly wished to persuade President Jimmy Carter to take away the phrase “In God We Trust” from US foreign money.
January 20, 1985 – Robert Latta, a meter-reader from Denver, follows the Marine Band into the White House earlier than President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration ceremony. Latta wanders across the mansion for about quarter-hour earlier than being arrested within the eating room.
September 12, 1994 – A man flying a stolen Cessna plane enters the prohibited airspace across the White House and crashes on the garden simply south of the Executive Mansion. The pilot, recognized as Frank Eugene Corder, dies within the crash.
October 29, 1994 – Francisco Martin Duran, armed with a semiautomatic rifle, fires at least 29 rounds at the White House from the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue. Duran is later convicted of making an attempt to kill President Bill Clinton.
May 23, 1995 – Leland W. Modjeski is shot by the Secret Service after climbing over a security fence and working towards the White House with a handgun that was later decided to be unloaded.
February 7, 2001 – Robert Pickett, an accountant who was fired from the IRS within the Eighties, fires shots outside the White House. Secret Service brokers shoot him within the leg after a standoff lasting greater than 10 minutes on the White House fence. President George W. Bush was not endangered, White House officers say later.
January 18, 2005 – Lowell Timmers, of Cedar Springs, Michigan, threatens to blow up his van in entrance on the White House, two days earlier than Bush’s second inauguration, saying he has an explosive substance within the automobile. The FBI, Secret Service and different authorities evacuate close by buildings and shut down a number of blocks. Four hours go earlier than Timmers, who had demanded that his son-in-law be launched from jail, surrenders.
April 9, 2006 – Brian Lee Patterson from New Mexico jumps the White House fence and makes it properly contained in the grounds earlier than being stopped. It is the fourth time he has jumped the fence.
November 24, 2009 – A publicity-seeking Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, sneak into a White House dinner. The uninvited friends finesse their method via a safety checkpoint staffed by uniformed Secret Service officers, according to congressional testimony by the agency’s director Mark Sullivan. Sullivan apologizes for the breach, saying brokers violated protocol by permitting the Salahis to enter with out verifying that they have been on the visitor record.
November 11, 2011 – A gunman fires an assault rifle on the White House, hitting the residential wing of the constructing not less than seven occasions. Secret Service supervisors fail to acknowledge the hazard, dismissing the gunfire as a gang-related shootout slightly than an assault on the White House, in line with the Washington Post. Four days later, a housekeeper and a White House usher spot bullet holes within the residence. Five days after the capturing, the gunman, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is arrested at a Pennsylvania lodge. In 2014, Ortega-Hernandez is sentenced to 25 years in federal jail.
October 3, 2013 – An unarmed woman is shot and killed by a Secret Service agent and a Capitol police officer after she drives towards a safety checkpoint close to the White House, hits a barricade and speeds away. The girl is a 34-year-old mom battling postpartum melancholy, in line with her sister. Her one-year-old daughter, seated behind the automotive in the course of the chase, is unhurt.
September 11, 2014 – A person carrying Pokemon gear and carrying a luxurious doll of the character Pikachu makes it over the White House fence and onto the north garden, the place he’s apprehended. He is later recognized as Jeffrey Grossman.
September 19, 2014 – After leaping the White House fence, 42-year-old Omar Gonzalez, of Copperas Cove, Texas, gets through the North Portico doors with a three-and-a-half-inch folding knife in his pants pocket, in line with the Secret Service. In early accounts of the incident, the Secret Service claims the intruder didn’t get past the portico doors. Days later, the Washington Post reveals the person had truly made his well beyond the entrance entrance, via the principle corridor and into the East Room, the place he was apprehended.
October 22, 2014 – Dominic Adesanya, 23, of Bel Air, Maryland, jumps the White House fence and barely makes it onto the garden earlier than he’s subdued as he fights off two police canine, in line with the Secret Service. Adesanya, who suffers from psychological well being issues, had been arrested in a earlier White House breach, his father later says.
January 26, 2015 – The Secret Service locks down the White House shortly after 3 a.m. after an officer spots a drone flying above the White House grounds earlier than crashing on the southeast facet of the complicated. An worker of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a authorities entity with mapping and nationwide safety duties, later calls the Secret Service and admits that he was working the drone for enjoyable.
April 19, 2015 – Jerome R. Hunt, of Hayward, California, climbs the fence on the south side of the White House complicated whereas carrying a suspicious bundle, later deemed innocent, and is cornered by safety canine.
November 26, 2015 – The Secret Service stops a man draped in an American flag after he jumps a White House fence throughout a Thanksgiving celebration on the govt mansion.
April 1, 2016 – A man tosses a backpack over the north fence and then jumps over, himself, and is straight away arrested. His title is just not launched to the general public.
March 10, 2017 – A man carrying a backpack with mace and a letter for President Donald Trump makes it onto the grounds and roams for greater than quarter-hour earlier than he’s found and arrested by a Secret Service officer close to the south entrance. The suspect, recognized in courtroom information as Jonathan T. Tran, 26, of California, tells the company’s officers that he was there to see the president.
March 21, 2017 – Marci Anderson Wahl of Everett, Washington, jumps a fence on the south side however will get caught. Officers discover her hanging by her shoelaces, which have been “caught on top of the fence,” in line with a police report. Wahl is arrested two extra occasions inside the subsequent week, close to the Treasury Building and in Lafayette Park.