Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tennessee authorities have been making noises about publicly looking into Pauline Pusser's nearly 60-year-old murder since last ...

Walking Tall is a 1973 American action semi-biopic film of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a former professional wrestler-turned-lawman in McNairy County, Tennessee. It starred Joe Don Baker as Pusser. The ...

Q. What former lawman was "Walking Tall" in the Scenic City in 1973? A. Buford Pusser, the former McNairy County, Tennessee, sheriff who gained prominence for his crime-fighting efforts, visited ...

A late Tennessee sheriff who inspired a Hollywood movie about a law enforcement officer who took on organized crime killed his wife in 1967 and led people to believe she was murdered by his enemies, ...

Joe Don Baker has died at the age of 89. He enjoyed a long career playing characters on both sides of the law. The actor may be best remembered for his role in 1973’s ‘Walking Tall’ Joe Don Baker, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Don Baker, who played Gerry Spence in the TV movie "The Siege at Ruby Ridge," has died at 89. (CBS Photo Archive / CBS via ...

A sheriff whose crusade against corruption inspired a string of Hollywood films is now suspected by Tennessee authorities of killing his wife before 1973′s “Walking Tall” was released, in a dramatic ...

Actor Joe Don Baker, who starred as a crusading Tennessee sheriff in the 1973 film “Walking Tall,” died on May 7, his family announced. He was 89. Baker, who also had roles in three films from the ...

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 ...

Actor Joe Don Baker, best known for playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in the hit movie “Walking Tall,” has died. He was 89. Baker died on May 7, according to the official obituary. No cause of death was ...

LOS ANGELES — Joe Don Baker, the leading man turned character actor who broke out playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 movie “Walking Tall,” has died, his family announced online.