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‘Walking Tall’ sheriff likely murdered his wife in 1967, Tennessee officials say
AL.com ^
| 8/29/25
| Jeremy Gray
Posted on 08/29/2025 4:39:31 PM PDT by Round Earther
A renewed investigation into the unsolved 1967 murder of the wife of McNairy County, Tenn. sheriff Buford Pusser debunks what has for decades been depicted in movies and implicates the long-dead lawman in his wife’s shooting. The sheriff, who died in a 1974 car crash, long said Pauline Pusser went with him on a call on Aug. 12, 1967 when a car pulled up alongside them and shots were fired, killing her and leaving Buford shot in the face.
She was 33.
The scene was depicted in the 1973 movie “Walking Tall,” with Buford Pusser depicted by Joe Don Baker. The movie spawned sequels and remakes. Baker died earlier this year at age 89.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: 19670812; bosvenson; bufordpusser; bufurdpusser; crime; joedonbaker; markdavidson; mcnairycounty; paulinepusser; pusser; smearjob; tennessee; walkingtall
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To: Round Earther
On a side note, Bo Svenson, who played Pusser after Joe Don Baker is still living at age 84.
To: Round Earther
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posted on
08/29/2025 4:45:53 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
To: Round Earther
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posted on
08/29/2025 4:46:23 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
To: Round Earther
I just saw a remake of this a few days ago. I had to refresh my memory on the original. I couldn’t remember the name of the actor in the first one but that’s why we have the internet. The remake had Dwayne Johnson as Pusser....
To: Thank You Rush
No, his name wasn’t Pusser. Mediocre remake. Vague. They just took a couple of plot points from the original.
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posted on
08/29/2025 4:48:19 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
To: Round Earther
“”implicates the long-dead lawman in his wife’s shooting.””
Long dead? Died this year!!!!
To: Fledermaus
Whoops - don’t think I caught that....
To: Thank You Rush
Long dead? Died this year!!!!
Are you aware that it’s not 1974 anymore?
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posted on
08/29/2025 4:52:59 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
To: Thank You Rush
ummm..the actual sheriff has been long dead...the actor who played him died this year,geez.
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posted on
08/29/2025 4:53:14 PM PDT
by
basalt
(Y ou new to this??)
To: Thank You Rush
The actor, Joe Don Baker, died recently.
Before Pusser died in an automobile accident a long time ago.
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posted on
08/29/2025 4:53:48 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
To: Round Earther
Buford shot his wife, and then shot himself in the face? Does that really seem likely? Not something I could have done.
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posted on
08/29/2025 4:54:31 PM PDT
by
jimtorr
To: Fledermaus
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posted on
08/29/2025 4:56:44 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
To: jimtorr
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posted on
08/29/2025 4:59:46 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: jimtorr
That is what I thought. And he was hospitalized a long time. Didn’t go to her funeral.
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posted on
08/29/2025 5:00:39 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
To: Fledermaus
BS Maybe not. From a different article,
with more details:
Revelle pointed out that cranial trauma sustained by Pauline Mullins Pusser did not match interior crime-scene photographs of the vehicle.
Davidson said that among the evidence in the file, an expert said that the shooting was possibly staged; Davidson added that Revelle’s evaluation of the gunshot wound he sustained to the cheek was evidence of a close-contact wound, not a long-range wound.
Efforts were also undertaken to recreate bloodstain patterns on the hood of Buford Pusser’s vehicle, and Davidson said the conclusion was that someone was injured both outside and inside the vehicle. Cartridge locations and bullet trajectories were also found to be inconsistent with Buford Pusser’s version of events.
The man’s a legend, but that doesn’t mean he was a saint. There’ve been doubts about his wife’s murder from the very start.
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posted on
08/29/2025 5:00:57 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
To: verum ago
Wait! I’m goin’ to the disco, ordering a Singapore Sling, tomorrow get a Bagelnosh chicken salad sandwich!
1974 again 😊
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posted on
08/29/2025 5:01:09 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: Thank You Rush
The original actor died this year.
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posted on
08/29/2025 5:02:28 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
(I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
To: verum ago
Unfortunately not.
I’d go back to 1974 in a heartbeat.
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posted on
08/29/2025 5:02:44 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Beowulf9
Wait! I’m goin’ to the disco, ordering a Singapore Sling, tomorrow get a Bagelnosh chicken salad sandwich!
May I join you..? 😆
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posted on
08/29/2025 5:04:34 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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