AND
AND WE
AND WE WILL CHAT WITH THE BALDERDASH ACADEMY ABOUT THEIR NEW IMPROV GAME SHOW AND YOU
CAN WATCH IT 4@ONLINE.
>>> FIRST, EVERY ONCE IN A 4@
WHILE, A STORY COMES ALONG THAT
SENDS OUT RIPPLES AND NO ONE
KNOWS HOW THOSE RIPPLES WILL
CHANGE LIVES. 4@
IT HAPPENED WHE4@N A CAR CAREEN
ONTO A BASEBALL FIELD IN
SANFORD AS KIDS WERE PLAYING A
GAME.
THE WHOLE SCENE WAS CAUGHT ON
VIDEO. 4@4@
>> THE DRIVER HIT AND KILLED A
68-YEAR-OLD MAN, DOUGLAS
PARK4@HURST.
HE WAS THERE TO SEE HIS GRANDSO@
PLAY BALL. A 4@
DOCUMENTARY TWO YEARS IN THE
MAKING WAS RECENTLY RELEASED
ABOUT THE INCIDENT AND THE
BIZARRE TWIST IT BROUGHT TO
LIGH4@T. 4@
207 HAS BETH MCEVOY WITH TOM
JUNEAU, WHO MADE THE FILM.
>> Reporter: 4@AFTER DOUGLAS
PARKHURS4@T RAN FROM THE STAND
ONTO THE FIELD AT THE 4@PARK, A
WHAT SEEMED LIKE AN ATTEMPT TO
STOP AN ERRATIC DRIVER, HE WAS
HAILED A HERO.
HIS DEATH REVEALED A SECRET. 4@@
PARKHURST HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN
ANOTHER HIT-AND-RUN SOME 50
YEARS PRIOR THAT KILLED A 4-
YEAR-OLD GIRL IN FULTON, NEW
YORK.
IT WAS THIS BIZARRE TWIST OF
FATE THAT CAUGHT THE ATTENTION
OF AN AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST,
TOM JUNOD. 4@
>> HEROES.
WE KNOW ONE WHEN WE SE4@E ONE. @
WE THINK WE DO.
AND WHAT ABO4@UT THE HEROES,
THEMSELVES? 4@
WHY DO THEY DO WHAT THEY DO?
IS HEROISM ENOUGH4@ WHEN THE HE
HAS 4@A SECRET? 4@4@
AND, A PAST?
>> Reporter: I'M FASCINATED WITH
HOW YOU EVEN GOT TURNED ON TO
THIS STORY TO BEGIN WITH.
>> EASY ANSWER. 4@
MY WIFE.
SHE KNOWS ME WELL AND KNOWS THE
KIND OF STORIES I LIKE TO DO. 4@
IT WAS THE ORIGINAL STORY THAT
WAS ON CNN AND4@ SHE TOLD ME TH
YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT. 4@
WAS ON CNN AND4@ SHE TOLD ME TH YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT. 4@4@ THIS WAS IN JUNE AND 4@I WAS IN
SANFORD WITHIN THE MONTH AND
WENT IN EARLY JULY OF 2018.
>> Reporter: WHAT WERE YOUR
IMPRESSIONS OF SANFORD AND OF
THE COMMUNITY THERE? 4@
>> I HAD NEVER SPENT TIME IN A
PLACE LIKE SANFORD AND NEVER
HAD SPENT TIME IN A MILL TOWN4@
THAT HAD A PROSPEROUS PAST4@ AN
A NARROW PRESENT AND FUTURE.
THE THING THAT I LOVED ABOUT
SANFORD WAS4@ THE PERSISTENCE A
SPIRIT OF THE TOWN AND THE WAY
THE PERSISTENCE AND SPIRIT
REALLY SORT OF CAME TO TO BE 4@
TWIN TURNED4@ AROUND GOODALL
PARK.
>> THAT'S WHERE THE PARENTS OF
SANFORD STILL BRING THEIR
CHILDREN. 4@
IT'S THE PLACE WHERE THE
CHILDREN GO TO PLAY AND LEARN
TO DREAM. 4@
>> EVEN WITH DOUGLAS PARKH4@URS
ON THE FIELD AND WHAT HAPPENED,
WHEN YOU WENT TO SANFORD AND
WENT TO A BALLGAME ON A FRIDAY
NIGHT UNDER THE LIGHTS,4@ YOU
KNEW EXACTLY WHY THE ORIGINAL
ACCIDENT -- WHY THE HIT-AND-RUN
ON JUNE 14@4@, 2018, WHEN DOUGL
PARKHURST WAS KILLED -- YOU
KNOW WHY THAT WAS SUCH A BIG
DEAL AND WHY IT WOUNDED SO MANY
PEOPLE.
THE TOWN PUT SO MUCH EMPHASIS
AND SO MUCH HOPE4@ INTO THE
SIMPLE BALLGAMES AT GOODALL
PARK. 4@4@4@
I'VE NEVER SEEN A BALLPARK HAVE
SUCH A POSITION O4@F PROMINENCE
IN THE TOWN UNTIL I WENT TO
SANFORD AND IT WAS REALLY COOL.
>> AT ITS CORE, IT WAS ABOUT
THE SECRET. 4@
DOUGLAS PARKHURST CARRIED IT
FOR SO MANY DECADES THAT HE HAD
BEEN INVOLVED IN A HIT-AND-RUN
THAT KILLED A 4-YEAR-OLD4@, CAR
LEE ASHBY.
>> DOUG PARKHURST WAS A MAN
WITH A DARK SEACHRIST HE HADN'T
REVEALED TO AN4@YONE, NOT EVEN
HIS FAMILY.
THE BRUTAL IRONY IS THAT HIS
ACT OF HEROISM AT GOODALL PARK4
IS WHAT EXPOSED HIS SECRET4@ TO
THE BRUTAL IRONY IS THAT HIS ACT OF HEROISM AT GOODALL PARK4 IS WHAT EXPOSED HIS SECRET4@ TO@
THE WORLD.
>> EVERYBODY WHO TALKS ABOUT
THIS STORY ASSIGNS A DIFFERENT
MEANING 4@TO IT.
FOR SOME PEOPLE, IT'S ABOUT
FAIT4@H AND FOR SOME, KARMA, ET
FOR 4@SOME, IT'S ABOUT JUSTICE.
FOR ME, IT HAS BEEN ABOUT THE
SECRET.
DOUG PARKHURST WAS 18 WHEN HE
HIT CAROL LEE ASHBY AND KILLED
HER ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT, 1968.
>> 4@Reporter: SHE WAS 4 YEARS
OLD AND HOLDING HANDS WITH HER
SISTER, DARLENE, WHO WAS 15,
WHEN SHE WAS HIT AND KILLED IN
FULTON, NEW YORK. 4@
>> IT NOT TO WRITE OUT OF HER
BOOTS.
SHE WAS EATING HER ICE CREAM. 4@
FOR ME TO BE STANDING THERE4@,
INCHES FROM HER AND TO HAVE HER
HAND4@ AND THEN HAVE HER NOT BE
THERE WHEN I LOOKED DOWN, IT
WAS JUST4@ -- IT JUST TURNED IN
SCREAMING AND LOOKING FOR HER
AND I FINALLY SPOTTED HER DOWN
THE ROAD AND RAN TO HER. 4@
>> IF HE HAD TOLD PEOPLE ABOUT
IT4@, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN
CLOSURE AND 4@THEY WOULD HAVE
BEEN HEALING THAT 4@STARTED THE
HE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE GONE TO
JAIL FOR SIX MONTHS OR A4@ YEAR
AT THE TIME.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN OVER AND
BECAUSE HE DECIDED TO KEEP IT4@
SECRET AND THE PARKHURST FAMILY
DECIDED TO KEEP THE SECRET, IT
WAS NEVER OVER. 4@
IT JUST KEPT ON GOING AND GOING
AND GOING FOR 504@ YEARS.
IT CHANGED THE 4@LIVES OF
EVERYBODY AT AFFECTED.
IT WASN'T JUST DOUGLAS
PARKHURST OR DARLENE ASHBY, BUT
THEIR KIDS AND OTHER FAMILY
MEMBERS.
THE STORY