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Pusser shot and killed an intoxicated Charles Russell Hamilton on December 25, 1968, after responding to a complaint that Hamilton had threatened his landlord with a gun. [11] Pusser was ineligible for re-election in 1970 due to the term limit then in effect. He was defeated in his bid for sheriff in 1972.
21 Ιουλ 2024 · Buford Pusser was a young and tough sheriff who fought the Dixie Mafia and the State Line Mob in Tennessee. He survived multiple assassination attempts, but his wife Pauline was killed in a drive-by shooting in 1967.
14 Φεβ 2024 · Pauline Pusser, 33, died at the scene. Buford Pusser was taken McNairy County General Hospital, then to Baptist Hospital in Memphis where he recovered.
9 Φεβ 2024 · Pauline Pusser was shot and killed in 1967 while in a car with her husband, former Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser, who survived the attack. Authorities exhumed her body in 2024 after a new tip, but no autopsy was performed at the time of her death.
10 Φεβ 2024 · She was killed by incoming gunfire while in a car driven by her husband, McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser, a figure whose legend was captured in the 1973 film “Walking Tall” starring Joe Don Baker and a 2004 remake starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
4 Μαρ 2018 · Learn about the violent events that marked the life and death of Buford Pusser, the sheriff who inspired the movie Walking Tall. He was shot by a sniper in 1967, survived, but died in a car crash in 1974.
9 Φεβ 2024 · Pauline Pusser was killed in McNairy County on Aug. 12, 1967, and a previous iteration of the TBI, then named the Tennessee Bureau of Criminal Identification, was called in to investigate.
