A company I worked for back in early '70s had a branch plant down there in the same area where Buford Pusser was sheriff. Our truck driver made regular overnight runs back and forth between plants two or three times a week. He told us from getting to know and be pretty good friends with some of the branch plant employees and some locals too who had been born and raised around there that not many cared much for him before he ever became Sheriff and even less after he did.
My cousin was a Tennessee highway patrol assigned to McNairy county during the time Pusser was Sheriff. I try not to speak ill of the dead so I’ll just say that Joe did not care for Pusser AT ALL and said there was very little factual about the movies.
