Gerald Gainous

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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 Gerald 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

  1. ↑ Chaplin, Gordon (2 October 1977). "The White House Cases". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  2. ↑ "WHITE HOUSE ORDERS REPORT ON INTRUDER". The New York Times. 16 December 1975. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "Young Man Again Caught Scaling White House Fence". Reading Eagle. August 16, 1976. p. 6. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ Federation of American Scientists, White House Security Review Archived 2006-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Protection of the White House Complex in the Twentieth Century
  6. ↑ "White House fence stunt repeated: Intruder getting familiar". Calgary Herald. August 16, 1976. p. 8. Retrieved August 7, 2011.


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