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Note that the White House maintained a broadly open door policy until the 1880s. August 24, 1814 – During the War of 1812, the British Army raided and set fire to the White House, along with the Capitol and many other Washington, D.C. structures. The reconstruction took until 1817.
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.
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.
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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 man was detained on Thursday after jumping the White House fence, triggering a lockdown of the presidential mansion. Man who jumped White House fence facing charges: Secret Service Skip to main ...
The fence on June 19, 2020. The Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence (BLM Memorial Fence) was a two-block eight-month long protest art installation of Black Lives Matter memorials attached by visitors and community activists to the chain link fence outside the White House on H Street, between Vermont Avenue and Connecticut Avenue NW in Downtown Washington, D.C. in 2020 and 2021.