Gerald Gainous

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
  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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