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Buford Hayse Pusser (December 12, 1937 – August 21, 1974) was the sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee from 1964 to 1970 and constable of Adamsville from 1970 to 1972. He is known for his virtual one-man war on moonshining , prostitution , gambling , and other vices along the Mississippi–Tennessee state line.
While Buford and Grady stake out a still run by O.Q. Teal and his brother Udell, Buford witnesses O.Q. beat his son Robby. Buford intervenes and beats O.Q. in the same manner. After blowing up the still, he takes Robby to an orphanage. At his office, Buford finds a message from Luan Paxton, a prostitute who helped Buford defeat the state line gang.
Buford Pusser 1976 Breaking Point: Michael McBain Special Delivery: Jack Murdock 1977 The Son of the Sheik: Hamilton Burger Walking Tall: Final Chapter: Buford Pusser 1978 The Inglorious Bastards: Lieutenant Robert Yeager 1979 Portrait of a Hitman: Dr. Bob Michaels North Dallas Forty: Jo Bob Priddy 1980 Virus: Major Carter 1982 Night Warning ...
War on moonshiners. Buford Pusser was a basketball star at Adamsville High School in the mid-1950s. At 6-foot-6, he played center, and averaged a tick under 20 points per game.
The ambush was featured in a 1973 movie called “Walking Tall.”
Pauline Pusser was killed 56 years ago in what authorities believe was an ambush meant to kill her husband, then-McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser. TBI agents exhume body of 'Walking Tall ...
Buford Pusser, at his wife Pauline's behest, retires from the professional wrestling ring, and moves back to Tennessee to start a logging business with his father Carl Pusser. With a friend, Pusser visits a gambling and prostitution establishment The Lucky Spot, and is beaten up after catching the house cheating at craps .
Authorities exhumed the body of Pauline Pusser, the wife of hard-charging McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser, 56 years after she was shot to death in an ambush presumably meant to kill her husband.