Sheriff Buford Pusser (Getty)

Georgia:

Sheriff Bufford Pusser

Episode sources:

1. Walking On: A Daughter's Journey with Legendary Sheriff Buford Pusser, by Dwana Pusser, Ken Beck and Jim Clark

2. “TBI agents exhume body of Pauline Pusser, wife of famous 1960s-era McNairy County sheriff” by Kirsten Fiscus and Keith Sharon (The Tennessean, February 9, 2024)

3. “Everybody’s Out to Get Buford Now” by Kathy Sawyer (The Tennessean, August 12, 1973)

4. “Sheriff Fired At, Slays Woman” by Leslie Houston (The Tennessean, February 2, 1966)

5. “Pauline Pusser remains returned to gravesite” by Kyle Peppers (WBBJ, April 8, 2024)

6. “State Line Mob” (Wikipedia)

7. “Blood and Thunder” by Chris Davis (Weekly Wire, July 5, 1999)

Karen:

The 1917 Halifax Explosion

Episode sources:

1.  “The Halifax Explosion” by Sharon Adams (Legion Magazine)

2. “Kiloton Killer: The Collision of the SS Mont-Blanc and the Halifax Explosion” (NASA) 2013

3. ‘Astonishing he even survived:’ The story of firefighter Billy Wells in the Halifax Explosion” by Meghan Groff (National University) 2018

4. “The girl who lived: Remembering the Halifax explosion through a child's eyes, 99 years later” by Stephen MacGillivray (The Globe and Mail) 2016

5. “First World War touched everyday lives in Halifax, Atlantic Canada” by Keith Duocette (CBC) 2015

6. “Halifax explosion” (Britannica)

7. “Halifax and its People/1749-1999” (Nova Scotia Archives)

8. “Halifax Explosion” by Lois Kernaghan, Richard Foot (The Canadian Encyclopedia) 2011

9. “This firefighter was metres from the Mont-Blanc when it exploded. He survived.” By Katy Parsons (CBC) 2017

10. “How the largest mass-blinding in Canadian history birthed CNIB” by Jon Tattrie (CBC) 2016

11. “Wells, William ‘Billy’” (Halifax Fire Historical Society)

12. “Halifax Explosion (Plain-Language Summary)” (The Canadian Encyclopedia) 2022

Billy Wells

Destruction after Halifax Explosion

(Historic Collection / Alamy)

Imo ship run aground after the explosion

(Niday Picture Library / Alamy)

Recommendation Corner

Books

FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus