Reprise | Jim Guy Tucker, 43rd Governor of Arkansas

Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy

Ep 262 | Aired 09/17/2021 Where has this ‘guy,’ Mr. Jim Guy Tucker, been? Today on Up In Your Business we’ll find out what he has been up to and more. In the autobiography The Education of Ernie Dumas, the author admiringly describes Jim Guy as a “swashbuckler.” I had to look it up: A swashbuckler is a heroic archetype in European adventure literature that is typified by the use of a sword, acrobatics and chivalric ideals. After reading about today’s guest, I concur with Mr. Dumas’s summation of Arkansas’s 43rd Governor! Jim Guy is tall, uncomfortably handsome, a Harvard graduate, a Marine, a Vietnam war correspondent, a politician turned international businessman and a felon. Yes, he was wrongly accused as part of the Kenneth Starr Whitewater Investigations. He settled to a lesser charge, whilst he received a liver transplant due to failing health caused by a life threatening, autoimmune disease. Years later, after finding nothing to charge him of, the case was dropped, and he received an apology letter and refund check from the United States government. The felony charge remains on his record. And there’s even more interesting facts: young Jim Guy went undercover at the state penitentiary until then-Governor Rockefeller found out and ordered him out of there saying, “Get him out before he gets killed!” See … he is an American swashbuckler!