The 36th annual Sheriff Buford Pusser Festival begins this week. The multi-day festival is set to kickoff with the opening of the carnival at 5 p.m. at the Adamsville City Park on Thursday, May 22.

But his biggest claim to fame was as the former professional wrestler turned lawman Buford Pusser in 1973's "Walking Tall." ...

Joe Don Baker, the leading man turned character actor who broke out playing Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 movie “Walking ...