A possibly suicidal middle-aged man branished a handgun outside the White House grounds early today. A uniformed member of the Secret Service's QRT fired a shot into his knee, at which point he was taken into custody and taken to GWU Hospital.
The gunman was Robert Pickett of Evansville, Indiana, who has been described as a "loner", and by reports on CNN, lives in the home he grew up in (his parents are dead).
USSS and Park Police tried to talk Pickett down for 15 minutes before the shot was fired injuring Pickett. The incident apparently began at 11:22 am.
City police were the first on the scene, near the South Grounds (where Bush had been exercising an hour earlier).
During Clinton's term, one suspect jumped the fence with an unloaded rifle, another fired at the White House, and a pilot apparently lost control of his plane and crashed into the White House.
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Er, that was a passenger plane into the capital, UM.
The plane may have hit the land intitially, but I'm pretty sure it hit the building itself at some point. I might be wrong.
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It happened. It wasn't made a big deal of because the pilot actually did lose control of his plane and wasn't trying to blow up the White House or something similar. He lost control, he crash landed -- on White House grounds. I'm certain the plane hit/bumped or did something to the building itself, but I'm not sure what exactly.
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Yeah, at the end of Debt of Honor, some Japanese pilot crashes a 747 into the Capital building where Ryan has just been sworn in as VP. Needless to say, Ryan becomes President.
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Guns are involved therefore who knows where the discussion will go.
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Just wondering...how many days into Clinton's presidency was an attempt made on his life? And how many days has it been into Bush's? Do we have a new record?
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According to my local NBC affiliate (which is more eye-candy than journalism, but I digress) says that indeed on September 12, 1994, at 1:49 a.m., a Cessna airplane crashed onto the White House South Lawn. The plane slid across the lawn and came to a halt after impacting the south wall of the White House. There was minimal damage done.
As for other White House attacks: October 29, 1994, a Colorado native opened fire on the White House with a semiautomatic weapon. Caught and convicted of attempting to assassinate the President and assaulting four Secret Service agents. Also, on May 23, 1995, a man with an unloaded handgun jumped the White House fence and made a dash for the White House. He was tackled by one Secret Service agent and shot and wounded by another one.
That seems to be it for their history of White House attacks. Their website has a listing for attacks at the capital building as well. That is quite a long list, too.
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Yes, First, except he was laid off by the IRA in the early eighties. Reportedly, he sued the government for the loss of his job.
Who knows why people do these things? Again, reports were that he might have been suicidal, so he might just have been going to great lengths to commit "suicide by cop" (I trust everyone knows what that is?)
He had a history of mental problems, too. He apparently was here in Baltimore for a few years at a "home" for the "crazy people!!!!"
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