Word: parkhurst
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...then shot him several times. Drega got back into the cruiser and sat parked in front of the police station for several minutes. The police officers were all up at the supermarket, responding to the first shootings. Next on Drega's hit list was another Columbia selectman, Kenneth Parkhurst; Drega kicked down the door to Parkhurst's house and found nobody home. He returned to his own home and set it afire with diesel fuel he had purchased that day. Next Drega drove across the Connecticut River into Vermont, where he shot at a New Hampshire fish-and-game officer...
...threatened attack. Each week security staff would start the trucks' engines and make sure the gas tanks were full. By the early 1970s the plan had fallen into disfavor. "It lost its appeal when Lynchburg became more of a likely bombing target because of some industrial development," recalls Charles Parkhurst, the National Gallery's former assistant director...