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December 4, 2005 – Shawn A. Cox, of Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, was immediately captured by Secret Service agents after scaling the White House fence. [35] [36] Cox believed that Chelsea Clinton still lived at the White House "and that he was destined to marry her".
An intrusion of the White House occurred on September 19, 2014, when Omar J. Gonzalez, an Iraq War veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, jumped over the White House's fence and entered the building's front door, overpowered a security officer, was stopped by another who was off-duty, then later by multiple security officers, and arrested.
A little over a week after going up, a chain-link fence across from the White House has been spontaneously dotted with placards, paintings and artifacts.
Chester Plummer (1945 – July 25, 1976) was a taxi driver in the Washington, D.C. area of the United States who attempted to invade the White House. Plummer was one of nine children and played football in high school in Washington, D.C. [1] At about 9:30 at night on July 25, 1976, Plummer scaled the White House fence, armed with a piece of pipe.
They were met with an unusual sight – a heavy, metal fence around 10 feet high surrounded the White House, the street in front, and a bronze statue of former President Andrew Jackson astride his ...
The hallowed (if much renovated) halls of the White House are packed with history, ... Although James Monroe added an iron fence in 1814, the gates remained open for much of the next century ...
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]
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