I'm a retired police lieutenant from a large city. When I began policing over 40 years as ago, Pusser was a hero to us. He is largely forgotten now sadly.
Did you know him? My Dad and Grandpa did . They would pay him off because they both had bars. They could run moonshine and run beer down to Lee county, Mississippi.
I met Sheriff Pusser once in Guntersville Alabama. He was a big man with character. I thought he was the greatest Sheriff ever, he was a good man as well.
I never met Mr pusser. except for seeing the movie they made of his life. it seemed to me he was a man who really cared about the people of mcnary county. I would like to say to his family. what a great human being this man was. to stand up against. scumbags like he did. he is remembered as a legend. and will never be forgotten. wish. I could have met him.
The 3 movies made him appear that way however, there is a couple of books that points out that while he did clean up some dirty messes he did so while taking some extra pay from some. The ones he chased out of the county was but the low bidders in buy a sheriff raffle. In the end, the effect was the same. He cleaned up the county or should I say thinned it out a bit. The people of the county was wise to him and this is why he lost re-election. I will point out that this is information from books I own and have read. I truly don't know what the truth is however, this I do know as fact, reported crime dropped when he took office. Either way, the man had guts in spades!
James Fleming No Sir. From individual accounts. One including his daughter. I'm not trying to discount Pusser's actions. I just want their to be light up on the fact that humans will be humans. He was a great man none the less and please, let it be said that Bufford Pusser was a white man and not black man.
bufford pusser was made a legend by joe don baker. the greatest acting i have ever seen. no one in history has ever played a character so well in any movie.
Joe Don Baker who portrayed Buford pusser in the first movie did the best acting job portraying the legendary sheriff I've ever seen the other actor in the other two movies did not measure up to Joe Don Baker
@dennismcconnell4222where is that written? I would like to find that " story". If he felt that way, ( your statement tells us Joe Don thought the man's life was fake/ phony) then why did Joe Don Baker continue to stay friends with Buford? Why was he crying uncontrollably at the funeral, and, why did he continue to stay in touch with Dwana? You probably heard that baloney from Elam. Did you know the day Buford was killed, he had been to Memphis to sign a movie contract to play himself in WTII? He then stopped by the fair to see Dwana and signed autographs.
@Fred Forbes no they didn't. I have a movie reel with him an my grandpa loading a large stainless barrel into truck of his car. The car squats an he slams the trunk lid an they just keep laughing. Grandpa made skeet (shine) grandpa said he wasn't all folks thought he was. Even had his wife taken out cause he got his girlfriend pregnant. Facts
One of the things that stood out about sheriff Pusser was he never claimed to be a hero . He always said he had to be tough to do a tough job ! Turned out he was a hero .
I got mine today-!!!.. very detailed.. I enjoyed it.. It's so crazy to even think it.. but jack being my great uncle... galavis is my great papaw.. Frank the best man in jack and louise wedding is my papaw.. isdo and Edo is buried up at the same cemetery beside my mom Debbie Hathcock that passed away in 2013.. I've got some pictures not many.. but what I'd give to have listen way more than I did when my mom was still here.. Reading this book makes me feel connected to jack and all of them.. I never got to meet my papaw frank.. my older sister did.. sometimes it be nice to jump in a time capsule and go back in time just for a little while..
I was with W. R. Morris during the taping of most of this and other interviews on the last of Eddie Bond's album about Buford Pusser. This was truly history in the making, it has always been a "historic tragedy" by the officials of Selmer and McNairy County for not promoting this world wide legend during the early years while could have been the biggest tourist attraction,,,,moments and memories lost due to personal jealousy. downtown Rickey Brown,,,friend of family
that was one real giant of a great man! he did not mess about, and could be a role model for all. hes still my hero since i was about 8 year old, im 50 now. and God love that Petie Plunk too.
@@REMNANTRising2005 Yes... Very sad. She was a very sweet person. Horrible things follow their family... Dwana's daughter is currently in ICU with health issues.
If you haven’t been to his house and museum in Adamsville and gone to his daughters restaurant there you need to it’s a it’s an educational and fun trip and some good food !!
Ray Britt You do know he was in pro wrestling 7 years before he was a sherriff and he bought the house they lived in with what he made in wrestling and he also ran a lumber company
Michael Anderson Actually it was a vintage corvette and he was going to play himself in the 2nd movie but died before it was even started ! Nothing illegal about getting paid for them to make a movie about you ! It was his vintage corvette that drunking idiot Jimmy Buffet and a band mate wer dancing on when Buford beat the shit out of both of them ! How can a man like Buford be bad when he was the first southern sherriff to make a black man his highest deputy ! Now it could be possible racist tinkered with his car causing it to wreck
Yes! I liked that too. I didn't think there were any recordings of his voice and it is much softer than I had imagined. I'm just waiting for that punk Mike Elam to start on this video-apparently he is trashing Mr. Pusser's name all over UA-cam and we suspect and wouldn't be surprised if he were a relative of his horrible old woman.
just to let you know, this tape does not discredit anything. You need contact McNairy county Medical Examiner verify pics . Either way Louis Hathcock got what she deserved. I have been a traveler who stopped at motels in middle of nowhere, if I had been a patron of the shamrock, sure I would have been happy to hear the news of Hathcock. Her and her crew robbed unsuspecting innocent travelers daily.
Buford came to Iowa after befriending acting sheriff of Polk county. The plan was for Buford to be chief deputy under Jack Woodard. Woodard was known as a tough hard law and order sheriff. He became sheriff when the acting sheriff passed away and would be running for election. A friend of my father was a publicist and going to handle the campaign. He had a large photo of him and Buford hanging in his office until he passed. When Buford was killed two detectives from Iowa were sent to investigate. They believed the car had been tampered with. A few months later the sheriff died in a car accident also
Thank You for posting this audio tape!!!! Plunk's account of the incident blows a hole in the rubbish propagated by Mike Elam that tried to make it out like Pusser murdered Hathcock. It would be interesting to know what Elam's motivation is for trying to smear a good man's name.
@@MicheleMJJ It doesn't take a genius to do some research on the real story of his life. He was NO hero, and only a moron believes a fictional movie as factual.
Mr. Skinner I just recently discovered your channel and YES you got better with time as you said in your"about"!! I love your channel! Is this one here your first video?
Who is this Mike Elam and what is his problem with Sheriff Pusser? He certainly goes to great lengths to defend what seemed to be a worthless person who did no good to anyone but herself!
I don't know exactly who he is but it has been discussed else where that he is related to the Hathcocks. I've read a lot of his post and viewed some of his vids here on you tube and I would say he is so filled with hate for Buford that he apparently is blind, deaf and dumb to any truth. One of the things this Elam guy has said in one his vids, is that Buford shot Louise Hathcock in the back. But this very vid here shows Elam to be a lier. Petie Plunck, Bufords deputy says the hole in Louise's back was the size of a door knob. This clearly is an exit wound in her back. I would suggest you just ignore him as I do.
bain5872 He seems to have some diarrhea of the mouth to me. He has got to be a relative to go to such lengths. If he is a relative, who'd believe a thing he says with the reputation of that bat Buford ridded us of.
Mike Elam is a liar and is out to destroy Buford's legend. If you listen to this story, you know Louise wasn't murdered. But then I suppose he thinks Peetie was lying too.
First thing...IF they knew she was carrying a pistol in her pocket shirt thingy...and she was raging drunk as reported by Mr. Plunk, why the hell did they not take control of her right away before questioning her? Also there are inconsistencies in this story regarding who fired first per the witness statements. I take no side here because Buford meant a lot to all of us in one way or the other. I just still have questions from TO THIS DAY unsolved crimes surrounding the years Buford Pusser was a Sheriff and after. I believe if the truth was ever told...if that is even possible 60 years after the facts...the hero status would be tarnished because what seemed to be a crusaide against the MOB...it wasn't at all that. The movie was fantastically done and very entertaining, but it lacks facts and hypes up the situations. Either way about it someone had to pay up for running millions of dollars of untaxed whiskey to Memphis and outward.
Pretty neat old interview!.I've recently watched the "Walking Tall" movies,even tho' seeing them back in the '70s,and it's pretty interesting.Did some reading up on the State-Line Mob and saw there was a book out on them.They were a mixture of the old Phenix City crew and Dixie Mafia apparently,some pretty dangerous people.Funny,we see Buford Pusser in film,but then you think this really happened and he wasn't just an action figure,but a man.
I call it a stretch that the interview calls both of those violent amoral criminals human. As far as him murdering them, the interviewer needs to learn the hornbook definition and distinction between murder and homicide. While he did commit a homicide, he did not commit murder.
There have been quite a few. I recall in November of 73, he was on an episode of TOMorrow, with Tom Snyder. I was in high school and stayed up late the night it was supposed to air, according to ads on our local TV station. It didn't and I was pissed. A week or two later we were at my grandparents' new house in Lafayette, TN. As they had just recently moved, the TV was still in my bedroom, not even plugged in and they had no antenna. I made a makeshift antenna out of aluminum foil, put it on the TV, and plugged it in. Got a signal good enough to watch WSM in Nashville until better arrangements could be made. A few minutes after I had the TV running, TOMorrow came on and it was the episode with Buford Pusser!!!! Talk about great luck! The interview with Buford was too short. The second half of the show was wasted with an interview with some dipstick Sheriff from San Francisco. I would have much rather the whole show was just Sheriff Pusser.
I agree best acting and a great story, so sad crimes prevail today. This shows the good side of USMC that should deal with domestic crime rather than doing the dirty business of American companies abroad.
He is a legend, not reality. I grew up lookin up to him and my dad made sure I did. Reality sucks when you put your trust in man and his own stories. Breaks my heart realizing the real story. I grew up in this crap. I now know the truth. You won’t find it in this video. Buford Pusser, the other story.
Whats the real story? Elam barking at his own ass? Why would you take his word for anything? And he has found a few keyboard cowboys to join up. They've just found a way to capitalize on someone else's misfortune! Think about this: if B7ford had wanted to get rid of his wife, dont you think he couldve found an easier way, than to set up a chase, an ambush, only to get his face half shot off? A deputy found his jawbone in a cornfield. You know its never mentioned that they found an area on side of the road that looked like two people had hid out? That's most likely why it took a minute for them to catch up, they picked those guys up. If youve studied anything about Oswald, you know he didnt kill JFK. But, you had the naysayers that for 60 years to say he did! Its in reverse with the Buford's case. For almost 60 yrs, people know the story, butt one little 💩can get on youtube, and its all over.
Let me ask you a question? If you were living back then even as a teenager would you like to be the one that would have to face Buford Pusser? I mean if caught you drinking and driving or doing something wrong? I know all about my own family being in the moonshine business from my grandfather. Him and his brother used to make the stuff. I also know that nobody where they lived at didn't even bother them. Now make no mistake that the law was after him or them. They cleaned the still site up before the got there. We need that kind of LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY.DON'T YOU THINK?
The state line mob moved from Phenix City Alabama. To this state line. One man and a few deputies. Did what it took the Alabama national guard to do in Phenix city.
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You only need one period, unless you meant to use an ellipsis (plural: ellipses) which is a punctuation mark consisting of three dots, in which case you're a dot short.
Can you find out if Deputy Plunk is related to a man named "Justin Lee Plunk" from Alcorn County (Corinth) Mississippi who worked at the Sheriff's Department in 2015 and was convicted of molesting a 13 year old girl and sentenced to 5 years prison in 2017?
there is a lot more evidence than the movies ... might want to take a look .... hard to imagine anyone in politics, especially as SHERRIFF, to be anything but dishonest! Goes with the job.
I like the Walking Tall movies, especially with Bo Svenson he was great. But when the movies were over I had to awaken to the real world. The facts are that Bufford was a bully and a murderer, the oath he took meant nothing to him. He used that office to profit himself and abuse those he disliked. It's nice to have a hero but at the end of the day. You need to find a real one. When the autopsy on Pauline is concluded there may be enough Forensic evidence to tell the resl story. Then the last victim, the daughter who killed herself. She probally knew the truth about her mothers death and had to put it in the back of her mind to be able to survive. In the final days she couldn't take it any longer. Death was better than reliving the truth day after day. My heart goes out to her, she suffered terribly. God rest her soul.❤
ll this killing and dying over prostitution, a voluntary transaction, alcohol, a voluntary transaction, and gambling, a voluntary activity. What a hero..
Grandaddy ran whiskey in a big block dodge across Waterloo Rd to bloody 69 and on to McNairy county to sell good ole bufford. He even had his wife killed. He ran liquor out one side an pumped it into the other
I'm a retired police lieutenant from a large city. When I began policing over 40 years as ago, Pusser was a hero to us. He is largely forgotten now sadly.
Naaaa... he's still remembered. I retired from the Prosecutor's office 4 years ago and he was remembered as a cop's cop!
We remember. All the way down in New zealand- hokitika
Did you know him? My Dad and Grandpa did . They would pay him off because they both had bars. They could run moonshine and run beer down to Lee county, Mississippi.
@@grayrecluse7496k
He will never be forgotten.
This is a real man a real American hero !!
I met Sheriff Pusser once in Guntersville Alabama. He was a big man with character. I thought he was the greatest Sheriff ever, he was a good man as well.
PTSD wasn't recognized much back then. I bet he had a lot of pain from all of the injuries he had received too.
You are probably correct!
Your still my hero Sheriff Pusser. God Bless You.
Rowdy Ropp you’re not your
I never met Mr pusser. except for seeing the movie they made of his life. it seemed to me he was a man who really cared about the people of mcnary county. I would like to say to his family. what a great human being this man was. to stand up against. scumbags like he did. he is remembered as a legend. and will never be forgotten. wish. I could have met him.
But you can...just call out to his spirit and he will come....it's that simple...that is how the spiritual realm works.
The 3 movies made him appear that way however, there is a couple of books that points out that while he did clean up some dirty messes he did so while taking some extra pay from some. The ones he chased out of the county was but the low bidders in buy a sheriff raffle. In the end, the effect was the same. He cleaned up the county or should I say thinned it out a bit. The people of the county was wise to him and this is why he lost re-election. I will point out that this is information from books I own and have read. I truly don't know what the truth is however, this I do know as fact, reported crime dropped when he took office. Either way, the man had guts in spades!
those books undoubtedly from ones pusser opposed.
James Fleming
No Sir. From individual accounts. One including his daughter. I'm not trying to discount Pusser's actions. I just want their to be light up on the fact that humans will be humans. He was a great man none the less and please, let it be said that Bufford Pusser was a white man and not black man.
But his #1 deputy was black
Legend I'm 48 and this man is still a legend to me
bufford pusser was made a legend by joe don baker. the greatest acting i have ever seen. no one in history has ever played a character so well in any movie.
Do you think Joe Don Baker is a better actor than Anthony Hopkins?
Buford Pusser made Buford Pusser a legend.. no one else..
@@c.l.pitman1760 Right!!
Agreed. Joe Don Baker was a monster of an actor in that role.
Bo Svenson played Buford Pusser in Walking Tall part 2
Joe Don Baker who portrayed Buford pusser in the first movie did the best acting job portraying the legendary sheriff I've ever seen the other actor in the other two movies did not measure up to Joe Don Baker
His mother didnt like Bo Svenson, said he dressed like a slouch because Buford never wore jeans.
@dennismcconnell4222where is that written? I would like to find that " story". If he felt that way, ( your statement tells us Joe Don thought the man's life was fake/ phony) then why did Joe Don Baker continue to stay friends with Buford? Why was he crying uncontrollably at the funeral, and, why did he continue to stay in touch with Dwana?
You probably heard that baloney from Elam. Did you know the day Buford was killed, he had been to Memphis to sign a movie contract to play himself in WTII? He then stopped by the fair to see Dwana and signed autographs.
We were brought up respecting police as kids guys like sheriff Pusser today's cops arent near the man he was
@Fred Forbes ya kinda hard to find 6 ft six inch men who can be shot an beat an still keep serving and protecting
@Fred Forbes no they didn't. I have a movie reel with him an my grandpa loading a large stainless barrel into truck of his car. The car squats an he slams the trunk lid an they just keep laughing. Grandpa made skeet (shine) grandpa said he wasn't all folks thought he was. Even had his wife taken out cause he got his girlfriend pregnant. Facts
There are cops today just as crooked as Buford. Most cops are far better men and women than Buford Pusser. The truth is out now.
Buford Pusser is a great American hero!
He was truly my childhood hero. Forget superman, America's
Sheriff was the
R E A L. D E A L.
BUFORD PUSSER WAS A GREAT MAN FOR WHAT HE BELIEVED IN. MY HERO. GOD BLESS!!!
One of the things that stood out about sheriff Pusser was he never claimed to be a hero . He always said he had to be tough to do a tough job ! Turned out he was a hero .
I got mine today-!!!.. very detailed.. I enjoyed it..
It's so crazy to even think it.. but jack being my great uncle... galavis is my great papaw.. Frank the best man in jack and louise wedding is my papaw.. isdo and Edo is buried up at the same cemetery beside my mom Debbie Hathcock that passed away in 2013..
I've got some pictures not many.. but what I'd give to have listen way more than I did when my mom was still here..
Reading this book makes me feel connected to jack and all of them.. I never got to meet my papaw frank.. my older sister did.. sometimes it be nice to jump in a time capsule and go back in time just for a little while..
Use your time machine to confer with your "pawpaw" whatever that is. You might want to consider a course in remedial reading/writing.
Too bad Buford didn't get more of them.
I was with W. R. Morris during the taping of most of this and other interviews on the last of Eddie Bond's album about Buford Pusser. This was truly history in the making, it has always been a "historic tragedy" by the officials of Selmer and McNairy County for not promoting this world wide legend during the early years while could have been the biggest tourist attraction,,,,moments and memories lost due to personal jealousy. downtown Rickey Brown,,,friend of family
We need more like him. A real hero..
Modern day Wyatt Earp!
He would have cleaned up Dodge City back in the old west!
you are so right it's good to hear to here my hero's voice!
Sherrif pusser an iconic true American hero with admiration and respect
that was one real giant of a great man! he did not mess about, and could be a role model for all. hes still my hero since i was about 8 year old, im 50 now. and God love that Petie Plunk too.
A true protector of the people may god send us another one like him I’ll tell you they don’t make them like they use to. R.i. P buford😢
A hero or a bully; you decide!
bully and murderer
when I was 12 I exchanged letters with his mother on 1983 I treasure the letters from her
Hey bufford u got ur pistal on loved the movie still watch all of em
Dwana Pusser RIP. Your Now In Heaven With Your Mom And Dad.
@Debbie Jones health issues, failing marriage, self inflicted gunshot.
@@flippindocks8183 suicide?
@@REMNANTRising2005 Yes... Very sad. She was a very sweet person. Horrible things follow their family... Dwana's daughter is currently in ICU with health issues.
Sometimes this life is too painful poor Dwana had been through so much. God Bless her, I hope she has found her daddy and mom, her book was great
I lived by Petie Plunk, back in the mid seventies. He showed me pics of Buford jaw shot off. Petie was a good man!
Yea he told Mr Rose the real story
you were a great man and hero,just like you,I try to walk tall
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If you haven’t been to his house and museum in Adamsville and gone to his daughters restaurant there you need to it’s a it’s an educational and fun trip and some good food !!
Truth....
It's a pack of lies is all it is.
We need more of him
Without the brutality.
Buford Pusser was a hero and fighting that battle with the state line mob by himself made him a legend!
I grew up here pusser was no hero
Ray Britt your not old enough to have been around then i was !
no but you can/t live like he did in tennessee on what they paid him.
Ray Britt You do know he was in pro wrestling 7 years before he was a sherriff and he bought the house they lived in with what he made in wrestling and he also ran a lumber company
Michael Anderson Actually it was a vintage corvette and he was going to play himself in the 2nd movie but died before it was even started ! Nothing illegal about getting paid for them to make a movie about you ! It was his vintage corvette that drunking idiot Jimmy Buffet and a band mate wer dancing on when Buford beat the shit out of both of them ! How can a man like Buford be bad when he was the first southern sherriff to make a black man his highest deputy ! Now it could be possible racist tinkered with his car causing it to wreck
Yes! I liked that too. I didn't think there were any recordings of his voice and it is much softer than I had imagined. I'm just waiting for that punk Mike Elam to start on this video-apparently he is trashing Mr. Pusser's name all over UA-cam and we suspect and wouldn't be surprised if he were a relative of his horrible old woman.
Petie Plunk was a hoot in this interview.
Sounded like an idiot
GOD BLESS BUFORD PUSSER.
just to let you know, this tape does not discredit anything. You need contact McNairy county Medical Examiner verify pics
. Either way Louis Hathcock got what she deserved. I have been a traveler who stopped at motels in middle of nowhere, if I had been a patron of the shamrock, sure I would have been happy to hear the news of Hathcock. Her and her crew robbed unsuspecting innocent travelers daily.
Still open
@@jeffreyshumate370 that’s not the same shamrock one this happened was torn down decades ago
Buford came to Iowa after befriending acting sheriff of Polk county. The plan was for Buford to be chief deputy under Jack Woodard. Woodard was known as a tough hard law and order sheriff. He became sheriff when the acting sheriff passed away and would be running for election. A friend of my father was a publicist and going to handle the campaign. He had a large photo of him and Buford hanging in his office until he passed. When Buford was killed two detectives from Iowa were sent to investigate. They believed the car had been tampered with. A few months later the sheriff died in a car accident also
I met him as a kid in Gulfport and got his autograph. It was an honor.
need more sheriff like that
Thank You for posting this audio tape!!!! Plunk's account of the incident blows a hole in the rubbish propagated by Mike Elam that tried to make it out like Pusser murdered Hathcock. It would be interesting to know what Elam's motivation is for trying to smear a good man's name.
I agree, Grig Rasputin!
Plunk came out after Buford died and said he didn't believe Buford. He was scared of Buford. Buford told Plunk not to come in and stay outside.
If the autopsy report is to believed the "facts" differ from this recounting.
There's always a turd in the punchbowl!
All I am going to say is look at her Autopsy report. Make up your own mind from that as to what happened.
Great interview
Have good today's too
He sacrificed all. A real hero.
He was a CRIMINAL, and the movie was 90% FICTION.
@@Thirdgen83 Thanks genius.
@@MicheleMJJ It doesn't take a genius to do some research on the real story of his life. He was NO hero, and only a moron believes a fictional movie as factual.
Thirdgen83, your "research" must have been watching one of Mike Elam's lie-filled videos.
@@grigorirasputin2276 Mike hasn't lied about ANYTHING. It's laughable that your only "proof" of the Walking Tall legend is a fictional MOVIE.
Great information, dear sir.😉
I love the 41 magnum.
Mr. Skinner I just recently discovered your channel and YES you got better with time as you said in your"about"!! I love your channel! Is this one here your first video?
Many thanks
Cordialement Daniel
Buford use to drive a 1968 Olds Toronado!
Who is this Mike Elam and what is his problem with Sheriff Pusser? He certainly goes to great lengths to defend what seemed to be a worthless person who did no good to anyone but herself!
I don't know exactly who he is but it has been discussed else where that he is related to the Hathcocks. I've read a lot of his post and viewed some of his vids here on you tube and I would say he is so filled with hate for Buford that he apparently is blind, deaf and dumb to any truth. One of the things this Elam guy has said in one his vids, is that Buford shot Louise Hathcock in the back. But this very vid here shows Elam to be a lier. Petie Plunck, Bufords deputy says the hole in Louise's back was the size of a door knob. This clearly is an exit wound in her back. I would suggest you just ignore him as I do.
bain5872
He seems to have some diarrhea of the mouth to me. He has got to be a relative to go to such lengths. If he is a relative, who'd believe a thing he says with the reputation of that bat Buford ridded us of.
Mike Elam's problem most likely is that Sheriff Pusser put one of Mike's relatives out of business who was in the state line mob
No doubt. Rumor has it that Louise Hathcock was his grandma.
+M Paxton The way I see it, Sheriff Pusser did what he had to do. He had to deal with these people on a level that they would understand.
My hometown, Adamsville, TN.
This man is a Great American
Mike Elam is a liar and is out to destroy Buford's legend. If you listen to this story, you know Louise wasn't murdered. But then I suppose he thinks Peetie was lying too.
Mike Elam is a low life piece of shit . Buford is a LEGEND . Greatest modern day law man . A modern day Wyatt Earp
Theres always a turd in the punchbowl
The second Buford shot her the second time Louise went "ohhh s**t!!!
First thing...IF they knew she was carrying a pistol in her pocket shirt thingy...and she was raging drunk as reported by Mr. Plunk, why the hell did they not take control of her right away before questioning her? Also there are inconsistencies in this story regarding who fired first per the witness statements. I take no side here because Buford meant a lot to all of us in one way or the other. I just still have questions from TO THIS DAY unsolved crimes surrounding the years Buford Pusser was a Sheriff and after. I believe if the truth was ever told...if that is even possible 60 years after the facts...the hero status would be tarnished because what seemed to be a crusaide against the MOB...it wasn't at all that. The movie was fantastically done and very entertaining, but it lacks facts and hypes up the situations. Either way about it someone had to pay up for running millions of dollars of untaxed whiskey to Memphis and outward.
You are absolutely right.
Thank you
I would love to see man mountain from game of thrones play Buford pusser ..could you imagine mountain swinging that club kicking ass
Pretty neat old interview!.I've recently watched the "Walking Tall" movies,even tho' seeing them back in the '70s,and it's pretty interesting.Did some reading up on the State-Line Mob and saw there was a book out on them.They were a mixture of the old Phenix City crew and Dixie Mafia apparently,some pretty dangerous people.Funny,we see Buford Pusser in film,but then you think this really happened and he wasn't just an action figure,but a man.
Very interesting.
Awesome.
Well HELL I believe so!! Good GRACIOUS ALIVE!!!
Buford Pusser and the late FBI agent Ted Gunderson were a totally different breed of men
fatgator46 What happened to Buford Pussers .41 magnum
WALK TALL!
I call it a stretch that the interview calls both of those violent amoral criminals human. As far as him murdering them, the interviewer needs to learn the hornbook definition and distinction between murder and homicide. While he did commit a homicide, he did not commit murder.
He died in a 1974 Corvette that was titled in his name.
This is great,hearing his voice for the frist time! Is there any film of the real Bufford Pusser?Any interviews with him?
There have been quite a few. I recall in November of 73, he was on an episode of TOMorrow, with Tom Snyder. I was in high school and stayed up late the night it was supposed to air, according to ads on our local TV station. It didn't and I was pissed. A week or two later we were at my grandparents' new house in Lafayette, TN. As they had just recently moved, the TV was still in my bedroom, not even plugged in and they had no antenna. I made a makeshift antenna out of aluminum foil, put it on the TV, and plugged it in. Got a signal good enough to watch WSM in Nashville until better arrangements could be made. A few minutes after I had the TV running, TOMorrow came on and it was the episode with Buford Pusser!!!! Talk about great luck! The interview with Buford was too short. The second half of the show was wasted with an interview with some dipstick Sheriff from San Francisco. I would have much rather the whole show was just Sheriff Pusser.
Good man
How did Pusser fit in his Corvette?
I agree best acting and a great story, so sad crimes prevail today. This shows the good side of USMC that should deal with domestic crime rather than doing the dirty business of American companies abroad.
How did shooters know the Pussers would be driving on a back road in the early morning?
I'd compare her (Louise) to Al Capone...I'd rather have Al Capone gunnin' for me..ha
Ma Barker
That's what happens when you go in "Half-Cocked"….Ha ha LOL
Yes
He is a legend, not reality. I grew up lookin up to him and my dad made sure I did. Reality sucks when you put your trust in man and his own stories.
Breaks my heart realizing the real story. I grew up in this crap. I now know the truth.
You won’t find it in this video. Buford Pusser, the other story.
Whats the real story? Elam barking at his own ass? Why would you take his word for anything? And he has found a few keyboard cowboys to join up. They've just found a way to capitalize on someone else's misfortune! Think about this: if B7ford had wanted to get rid of his wife, dont you think he couldve found an easier way, than to set up a chase, an ambush, only to get his face half shot off? A deputy found his jawbone in a cornfield. You know its never mentioned that they found an area on side of the road that looked like two people had hid out? That's most likely why it took a minute for them to catch up, they picked those guys up. If youve studied anything about Oswald, you know he didnt kill JFK. But, you had the naysayers that for 60 years to say he did! Its in reverse with the Buford's case. For almost 60 yrs, people know the story, butt one little 💩can get on youtube, and its all over.
@@janetphillips2875 you have lost your mind. Mr Rose plans to release Peatie's real story
Let me ask you a question? If you were living back then even as a teenager would you like to be the one that would have to face Buford Pusser? I mean if caught you drinking and driving or doing something wrong? I know all about my own family being in the moonshine business from my grandfather. Him and his brother used to make the stuff. I also know that nobody where they lived at didn't even bother them. Now make no mistake that the law was after him or them. They cleaned the still site up before the got there. We need that kind of LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY.DON'T YOU THINK?
He wasn't interested in anything but booze,women and pay offs
are there anymore recordings or live tapped interviews anywhere out there????
I know he was interviewed around 1969 on 60 Minutes, by Mike Wallace, but i cannot find it anywhere on UA-cam.
Interviewed too briefly by Tom Snyder on TOMorrow show in November of 1973.
you're welcome
Someone said that Deputy Jim Moffett was "Grady" from the films,
Is that True???
Joshua Parris no
this is not the place to get money from folks !
.41 magnum, dirty harry's heater
No, the *fictional* character, detective Dirty Harry Callahan, carried a model 29 S&W .44 Magnum.
Need more like him today instead of political correctness police.
What a shame
Mean women
The state line mob moved from Phenix City Alabama. To this state line. One man and a few deputies. Did what it took the Alabama national guard to do in Phenix city.
false very false. Fannie Bell moved home thats about it
He committed more crimes than the supposedly criminals he arrested. This is not the first time you've heard this I'm sure.
What's bad when the rock. Played him
The Rock never played Buford Pusser.
@@Thirdgen83 yes He did
@@REMNANTRising2005 NO HE DID NOT, you MORON.
Liars lie, a thief steals and killers kill...nothing or no one can justify any of it
Salute Sheriff Buford Pusser.
nihuja neonjal, pamoemu nawi pabedi
Al Capone cool
Good guys need more respect what u think
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we 're mission heroes like this
Apparently we are also missing grammar teachers.
Ashley Madison okay okay,so i made a mistake...
westpoint snell The I should be capitalized, just an FYI. :-)
Okay thanks..
You only need one period, unless you meant to use an ellipsis (plural: ellipses) which is a punctuation mark consisting of three dots, in which case you're a dot short.
Can you find out if Deputy Plunk is related to a man named "Justin Lee Plunk" from Alcorn County (Corinth) Mississippi who worked at the Sheriff's Department in 2015 and was convicted of molesting a 13 year old girl and sentenced to 5 years prison in 2017?
Ole Plunk breaking his hand patting himself on the back.
there is a lot more evidence than the movies ... might want to take a look .... hard to imagine anyone in politics, especially as SHERRIFF, to be anything but dishonest! Goes with the job.
What a bunch of idiots!!! Louise was bad drunk but Buford was sober when he wrecked. They was all drunks!!!1
I like the Walking Tall movies, especially with Bo Svenson he was great. But when the movies were over I had to awaken to the real world.
The facts are that Bufford was a bully and a murderer, the oath he took meant nothing to him. He used that office to profit himself and abuse those he disliked. It's nice to have a hero but at the end of the day. You need to find a real one. When the autopsy on Pauline is concluded there may be enough Forensic evidence to tell the resl story.
Then the last victim, the daughter who killed herself. She probally knew the truth about her mothers death and had to put it in the back of her mind to be able to survive. In the final days she couldn't take it any longer. Death was better than reliving the truth day after day. My heart goes out to her, she suffered terribly. God rest her soul.❤
ll this killing and dying over prostitution, a voluntary transaction, alcohol, a voluntary transaction, and gambling, a voluntary activity.
What a hero..
simplistic view of what went on.
Wow. Your empathy is truly something to be proud of. apburner1. (eyeroll)
I read that he did not carry his stick on calls in real life. Is this accurate?
Jeanie Grant he carried a box of cereal-LOL
He never carried a stick. He carried a gun. People need to stop thinking that movies are real life.
The stick was for the Movies. He had to use it as part of the contract. His mother told me he did use one in real life.
Grandaddy ran whiskey in a big block dodge across Waterloo Rd to bloody 69 and on to McNairy county to sell good ole bufford. He even had his wife killed. He ran liquor out one side an pumped it into the other
A prime example, of what is going on in our government. Democrats, don't want their evil shown