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I am from McNairy County, so i know it very well. But i have a question. Pauline died in the ambush on New Hope Roadi know where it is but i don't know any "landmarks" that can tell me what part of the road the ambush took place. I'm from southeast McNairy County.
Here lies Les Moore-two slugs from a .44 - No less no more.

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"a model whos front and would lift up causing the exact kind of accident that Buford had when driven at unsafe speeds. I'm no car expert but"
LMAO, but at least you are correct in your self assessment that you are "no car expert"
After that gut buster I almost couldn't control myself when I read your sandwich theoryGEEZUS

It was the "sandwitches" that did him in. Eat crysalized silicon and "some witches" and I'd like to see how you wind up. 24 hours later anyway
I never expect to know the truth behind Pusser's death nor do I really want to know. There is so much urban legend around this whole thing that I doubt anyone will ever know.
Bottom line for me is that his character and his historical figure represented what was good and just. Don't know about the reality and don't care. I admire how he responded to threats and how he did his job. If I read the history correctly, he had more guts than I ever hope to have. Face your enemies, take them on at their level and yours, and leave the outcome to come what may.
It don't get any ballsier than that! May he always "walk tall"!
" I got tired of being a trained animal in somebody else's circus."

No. People have a hard time accepting the fact that someone who was so much larger than life died in such a routine way as a car accident as a result of his own carelessness. No facts from the accident or anything else seem to give any actual evidence to the fact that he was murdered. People say his car was tampered with but the day he died his car was parked at a county fair with thousands of people around, surely at least one person would have seen someone tampering with the car of the most famous person at the fair. People say that while Buford was driving fast Buford always drove fast and was safer at high speeds than most people driving the speed limit. The truth is Buford was driving a new car that he wasn't familiar driving yet, a model whos front and would lift up causing the exact kind of accident that Buford had when driven at unsafe speeds. I'm no car expert but I do know its just stupid to push a new car too fast before giving it time to get "broke in," Buford also had been drinking at the fair, in the heat, all day and ate two sandwitches which he left sitting in the heat in his car all day after leaving the fair. All factors which contributed to his death. While its tragic and sad that he died so young but I'm sorry to say there has never been and probably never will be any real evidence to even indicate that Buford was murdered.

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She might have been there "the night he died" but she was not there WHEN he died, so she has absolutely no possible way of knowing whether he was killed or not. Sorry pal.
Clearly you don't know "everything about his life".

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Yea he was probably murdered. He certainly made enough people in that area mad at him. As for him being this pure honest lawman, naw. I am too young to remember him but my dad does.He didn't live in Mcnairy county but hung out there alot during that time. He said Buford was a decent guy but let of the moonshiners and such alone because they either paid him or gave him info on others.
The story I heard about his wife kinda mixed both theory's. I heard he paid someone to kill his wife but that doesn't make since as I don't think I would want someone to shoot at my wife if I wanted her dead while i was sitting in the car beside her. Who knows? All in all he cleaned up a corrupt county pretty good but you can never get it all out.
I never met him personally but years ago like when I was a kid Buford came to Martin Tn. for some reason. The mayor at the time owned a trucking company that also had a restaurant on their lot that most people went to eat at on Friday nights. ( Agco- Collier Trucking for those who know something about Martin) We're sitting there and Buford and the Mayor walk in, I didn't realise who he wasn until dad told me. They had an autographed photo there for a long time after that. I alwasy thought that was neat.

as to the question of was buford murdered yes i actually believe he was murdered and always will

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There is alot that we may never know.My college roommate is from TN,which is funny because we never really talked until I was watching Walking Tall on TBS one night. I heard plenty of stories from his parents and grandparents about Bufford Pussersome good,some bad.They basically said that it all depends on who you talk to,as he was loved by many people and hated by many people.Also that the movies are about 70% accurate from recolections,to spice it up for Hollywoodof course there is alot that only those who where there truly know.Although not being from there,I know how small towns work and how people talk.I have done some work off and on this after being drawn in by the movie and the stories.I can say though that this is a case that we may never really know what happened.

I not going to stick my neck out and say I know that his car was sabotaged but in my opinion it probably was. I believe that it was done in retribution for Buford killing Louise Hathcock at the Shamrock Hotel on February 1, 1966. There are some good books by Author W.R. Morris That go alot deeper into Pusser's Life and the state line mob.

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Ok whether you belive me or not Bufford Pusser was my moms cousin and he died in a car accident before i was born. And yes most of my family still lives in McNairy county, finger, TN to be precise, and i go there to visit them every so often.

To be fair, Morris wrote that AFTER he had a falling out with the Pusser family.
Morris changed his tune drastically between "Twelfth of August" (book that culminates with the death of Pauline) and "State Line Mob", where he turns Carl DOuglas "Towhead" White into a quasi-hero.

In "The State Line Mob", the author notes that Buford Pusser did in fact have an affair with another woman.

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