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There are sometimes stories that you really don’t want to cover, but to remain true to yourself, you have to. This is one of them.
When I was in high school, I don’t know how many times I saw Walking Tall at the drive-in. It was Joe Don Baker’s breakout role, and the movie, part of that 70s vigilante genre that included Billy Jack, Death Wish, and Dirty Harry, was hugely popular in rural Southside Virginia. It was the story of Buford Pusser, the real-life sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee. He was a former Marine who turned into a pro wrestler. He returned home to McNairy County and, after a brief stint as the chief of police in Adamsville, Tennessee, he became the youngest elected sheriff in Tennessee. He carried on a very public war with the Dixie Mafia and the State Line Mob, using a four-foot hickory club as his weapon of choice.
In the movie, the culminating event is Pusser and his wife, Pauline, being targeted in an ambush on August 12, 1967. Pusser was struck on the left side of his jaw by at least two, or possibly three, rounds from a .30-caliber carbine. Pauline, who was accompanying Pusser on a call, died from gunshot wounds.
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Ugly. Very ugly. It’s unfortunate he wasn’t found out before he died.
Too bad CSI and LEOs have destroyed their reputations jailing innocent people.
I don’t know that’s a lot of claims with very little substantiation. No motive offered for why he would kill his wife. And why/how would you shoot yourself in the face with a 30 caliber carbine? That’s a pretty weak case they’re bleating about now
Buford Pusser has been dead over half a century; I don’t think he will be able to respond to the charges.
Buford Pusser has been dead over half a century; I don’t think he will be responding to the charges against him.
Sorry for the double post.
…I was duscussing with the wife about how it seemed very weird to me that a sheriff would take his WIFE on a late-night disturbance call. To illustrate, I reminded her of a time I took her Code 3 on a fire run, but to the STATION, not to the FIREGROUND. She said, well, yeah, but its different with police.
And I said Im sure it IS.
Its WORSE.
Because the FIRE isnt SPECIFICALLY trying to kill people like a criminal may be.
…anyone whose gone to a dispatched emergency can tell you that the call may be a VERY different thing from the SCENE, and you dont know until you get there.
You wouldnt normally bring a civilian unless you had a LOT of other guys there, is what Im saying; and especially not your WIFE, particuarly if you KNEW politically powerful people wanted you DEAD.
It just seems weird to me from the get-go, just sayin’…
they did not solve shit.
No ballistics – No sale
Just to present another side of the fence….wife may have gone along to a “late night call” because he thought she may have been safer with him than home alone. Although as SNS pointed out it would make more sense to drop her off at a safe location. I may have missed it in the article, was there a log of the call he went on? If there is no call log, it’s mighty suspicious.
Maybe it’s time to exhume Mary Jo Kopechne.
…all that said, it does seem convienent to “solve” the case by putting it on a long-dead man who cannot defend himself. Seems to tie in nicely with the Democrat zeitgeist of tearing down White Male heroes of the past as well.
…seems like it might be instructive to know something about the possible political motivations of the folks literally digging up the past bones, is all Im saying…
Search Dixie Mafia if you’d like perspective on this part of the state.
More specifically, the State Line Mob. Buford was as corrupt as those he ‘fought’.