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Terry won competitions in pistols and shoulder-fired weapons. Under Sheriff Flournoy,  with the subsequent assistance of his wife Jane, Terry supervised the popular Junior Rifle Program to teach marksmanship to the young. He was the departmental firearms training officer in charge of the sheriff's pistol team.<ref name=sheriffsdepartment/> He also taught marksmanship to the [[Boy Scouts]].<ref name=terryobit/> In 1961, Terry was invited to display his marksmanship at the former Arkla Village, a re-creation of a 19th-century frontier town located near Emmet, Arkansas, off U.S. Highway 67. The park operated from the late 1950s until the late 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arkansasacer.tripod.com/id67.html|title=Arkla Village|publisher=arkansasacer.tripod.com|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>''The Hope Star'' newspaper, in an article announcing his appearance at the roundup, called Terry "one of the Southwest's outstanding shooting experts with pistol, rifle, and shotgun."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/8181794/|title="Arkla Village Roundup to Feature Crack Shot Capt. Harold M. Terry"|publisher=''The Hope Star''|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>

Terry won competitions in pistols and shoulder-fired weapons. Under Sheriff Flournoy,  with the subsequent assistance of his wife Jane, Terry supervised the popular Junior Rifle Program to teach marksmanship to the young. He was the departmental firearms training officer in charge of the sheriff's pistol team.<ref name=sheriffsdepartment/> He also taught marksmanship to the [[Boy Scouts]].<ref name=terryobit/> In 1961, Terry was invited to display his marksmanship at the former Arkla Village, a re-creation of a 19th-century frontier town located near Emmet, Arkansas, off U.S. Highway 67. The park operated from the late 1950s until the late 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arkansasacer.tripod.com/id67.html|title=Arkla Village|publisher=arkansasacer.tripod.com|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>''The Hope Star'' newspaper, in an article announcing his appearance at the roundup, called Terry "one of the Southwest's outstanding shooting experts with pistol, rifle, and shotgun."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/8181794/|title="Arkla Village Roundup to Feature Crack Shot Capt. Harold M. Terry"|publisher=''The Hope Star''|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>

After service as the chief deputy under Flournoy's successor, Sheriff [[James M. Goslin]], Terry was himself elected sheriff in the fall of 1975 in the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary election held in Louisiana. Nine days after taking office as the sheriff, Terry had to inform the family in Shreveport of the assassination in [[Baton Rouge]] of public relations consultant Jim Leslie in the evening of July 9, 1976. Josiah Lee "J. L." Wilson, III (1940-2015),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=josiah-wilson-iii-jl&pid=176981437|title=Josiah Lee "J. L." Wilson, III|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 23, 2015}}</ref> then a reporter for ''The Shreveport Times'' reported that deputies told him that Sheriff Terry's eyes were red from weeping as he left his office to meet with Mrs. Carolyn S. Leslie (born April 30, 1934) and the couple's two sons, D. Scott Leslie (born November 11, 1968) and Mickey Leslie. Terry never commented on how the Leslies handled the tragedy to protect their privacy.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvpN1t9TMrgC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=Sheriff+Harold+Terry+of+Caddo+Parish&source=bl&ots=FLpFpz8sBI&sig=CiYKwwaCvjQP3tfXSYdiOVQqKZc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aaccVJbbIpSgyATF5oFg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Sheriff%20Harold%20Terry%20of%20Caddo%20Parish&f=false|title=The Commissioner: A True Story of Deceit, Dishonor, and Death|author=Bill Keith|publisher=Pelican Publishing Company|location=Gretna, Louisiana|date=2009|pages=28|isbn=978-1-58980-655-9|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref>  

After service as the chief deputy under Flournoy's successor, Sheriff [[James M. Goslin]], Terry was himself elected sheriff in the fall of 1975 in the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary election held in Louisiana. Nine days after taking office as the sheriff, Terry had to inform the family in Shreveport of the assassination in [[Baton Rouge]] of public relations consultant Jim Leslie in the evening of July 9, 1976. Josiah Lee "J. L." Wilson, III (1940-2015),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=josiah-wilson-iii-jl&pid=176981437|title=Josiah Lee "J. L." Wilson, III|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=December 23, 2015}}</ref> then a reporter for ''The Shreveport Times,'' reported that deputies told him that Sheriff Terry's eyes were red from weeping as he left his office to meet with Mrs. Carolyn S. Leslie (born April 30, 1934) and the couple's two sons, D. Scott Leslie (born November 11, 1968) and Mickey Leslie. Terry never commented on how the Leslies handled the tragedy to protect their privacy.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvpN1t9TMrgC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=Sheriff+Harold+Terry+of+Caddo+Parish&source=bl&ots=FLpFpz8sBI&sig=CiYKwwaCvjQP3tfXSYdiOVQqKZc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aaccVJbbIpSgyATF5oFg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Sheriff%20Harold%20Terry%20of%20Caddo%20Parish&f=false|title=The Commissioner: A True Story of Deceit, Dishonor, and Death|author=Bill Keith|publisher=Pelican Publishing Company|location=Gretna, Louisiana|date=2009|pages=28|isbn=978-1-58980-655-9|accessdate=February 11, 2016}}</ref>  

Terry and George W. D'Artois, with whom Leslie had quarreled regarding payment of D'Artois' 1974 campaign bills in the public safety commissioner's race that year, had been deputies together prior to 1962 under then Sheriff Flournoy.<ref>Alisa Stingley (February 28, 2009). "Fateful arrest here changed course of two lives," ''The Shreveport Times,'' Retrieved September 19, 2014.</ref> In a book on the Leslie murder, ''Badge of Dishonor: A True Story of Police Racism, Brutality, and Murder in a Deep South City,'' the author Jere Turner Joiner (born  1936), a former Shreveport city police officer residing in [[Colorado Springs]], [[Colorado]], pictures Harold Terry, then chief deputy in 1963 with a [[Thompson submachine gun]] during what Joiner calls "a planned but uneventful racial disturbance in Shreveport." In the photograph, Commissioner D'Artois is standing beside Terry.<ref>Jere Joiner, ''Badge of Dishonor: A True Story of Police Racism, Brutality, and Murder in a Deep South City'' (Morris Publishing, 2013),  ISBN=978-0989278300. Retrieved September 26, 2014.</ref>

Terry and George W. D'Artois, with whom Leslie had quarreled regarding payment of D'Artois' 1974 campaign bills in the public safety commissioner's race that year, had been deputies together prior to 1962 under then Sheriff Flournoy.<ref>Alisa Stingley (February 28, 2009). "Fateful arrest here changed course of two lives," ''The Shreveport Times,'' Retrieved September 19, 2014.</ref> In a book on the Leslie murder, ''Badge of Dishonor: A True Story of Police Racism, Brutality, and Murder in a Deep South City,'' the author Jere Turner Joiner (born  1936), a former Shreveport city police officer residing in [[Colorado Springs]], [[Colorado]], pictures Harold Terry, then chief deputy in 1963 with a [[Thompson submachine gun]] during what Joiner calls "a planned but uneventful racial disturbance in Shreveport." In the photograph, Commissioner D'Artois is standing beside Terry.<ref>Jere Joiner, ''Badge of Dishonor: A True Story of Police Racism, Brutality, and Murder in a Deep South City'' (Morris Publishing, 2013),  ISBN=978-0989278300. Retrieved September 26, 2014.</ref>

In 1980, Terry retired from the sheriff's department and opened a firearms training institute and self-defense school,<ref name=terryobit/> which he sold ten years later.<ref name=oralhistory/> He was thereafter the weapons advisor in two [[film]]s by the Shreveport native Andy Sidaris: ''Day of the Warrior'' (1996) and ''L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach'' (1998).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855991/|title=Harold M. Terry (Miscellaneous Crew)|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 8, 2016}}</ref>

In 1980, Terry retired from the sheriff's department and opened a firearms training institute and self-defense school,<ref name=terryobit/> which he sold ten years later.<ref name=oralhistory/> He was thereafter the weapons advisor in two [[film]]s by the Shreveport native Andy Sidaris: ''Day of the Warrior'' (1996) and ''L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach'' (1998).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855991/|title=Harold M. Terry (Miscellaneous Crew)|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 8, 2016}}</ref>

 

 

==Death==

==Death==

Harold Terry died in Shreveport at the age of ninety. Services were held at the [[Roman Catholic]] St. John Berchmans Cathedral. Harold and Jane Terry are interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=terryobit/>

Harold Terry died in Shreveport at the age of ninety. Services were held at the [[Roman Catholic]] St. John Berchmans Cathedral. Harold and Jane Terry are interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=terryobit/>