Francisco Duran Incident (10/29/1994)

Occurred in Washington DC on October 29, 1994.

Tourists visiting the White House were unaware of the events that were about to unfold. Francisco Martin Duran, dressed in a trench coat, went up to the fence overlooking the north lawn of the White House and fired a 7.62x39mm SKS semi-automatic rifle at a group of men in dark business suits on the White House lawn. At first, it was believed that one of the men was (at the time) President Clinton, but this turned out not to be the case. Secret Service officers immediately began running across the lawn with guns drawn. When Duran tried to reload, three citizens, Harry Rakosky, Ken Davis, and Robert Haines tackled Duran and pinned his arms until he could be subdued. Fortunately, no one was harmed in the assassination attempt.

During their investigation of Duran’s attack, Secret Service agents impounded his brown pickup near the White House and found one of the rifles he had purchased en route to Washington, several boxes of ammunition, a nerve gas antidote, a handwritten document with the heading “Last Will & Words,” and several books about out-of-body experiences. They also found a number of items that clearly revealed his intention to assassinate Clinton, including a letter in which he had written, “Can you imagine a higher moral calling than to destroy someone’s dreams with one bullet?” a road atlas on which he had written “Kill the Pres,” and a cover torn from a telephone book that had a picture of Clinton with a circle drawn around his head and an “X” on his face.

Duran was charged with attempting to assassinate President Clinton. He pleaded not guilty and mounted an insanity defense, claiming that he was trying to save the world by destroying an alien “mist” connected by an umbilical cord to an alien in the Colorado Mountains. But the jury wasn’t buying it. In April 1995, after deliberating nearly five hours, jurors convicted Francisco Martin Duran of trying to assassinate President Clinton. They rejected the insanity defense, and he was sentenced to forty years in federal prison.

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