Von Brunn, an 88-year-old who has written several anti-Semitic and white supremacist publications, stormed the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday armed with a rifle, according to the Associated Press. Von Brunn then opened fire, killing guard Stephen Johns, but was shot and subdued by security before he could enter the museum, the AP reported.
In 1981, von Brunn was arrested after he entered the Federal Reserve's headquarters in Washington, D.C., carrying several weapons and a decoy bomb in an alleged attempt to kidnap Federal Reserve board members. He was stopped and arrested by security. Von Brunn was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 1983, and was released after six years.
On his website, von Brunn states that he moved to Lebanon, N.H., in the late 1970s after his home in California was destroyed in a fire.
Von Brunn's website also reports that he spoke with a "conservative professor of economics" at Dartmouth and believed he was "on to something" after learning of the Fed's status as a "private corporation."
In addition, Von Brunn said that he sold two paintings at an undated College exhibition.
The extent to which von Brunn used Dartmouth's libraries remains unknown, Jeffrey Horrell, dean of libraries and librarian of the College, said in a statement.
"It is impossible to confirm or dispute whether a particular individual may have made some kind of use of the libraries occasionally nearly 30 years ago," Horrell said in the statement. "Like many if not most academic libraries, Dartmouth's libraries are open to use by members of the public as well as members of its own community."
