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4 unusual facts about Jim Guy Tucker


Jim Guy Tucker

In early 1965, Tucker found passage to southeast Asia by tramp steamer from San Francisco and entered South Vietnam as an accredited freelance war correspondent.

Tucker served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1964, but was discharged for medical reasons (chronic ulcers) after finishing at the top of the first phase of his officer candidate training class at Camp Upshur at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia.

Tucker along with James Riady, established a company called AcrossAsia Multimedia Ltd.

Maud Crawford

Former Arkansas Attorney General Jim Guy Tucker (later a U.S. Representative and then governor), considered the deeds "powerful evidence" that Mike Berg sought to defraud his aunt.


Amy J. St. Eve

She was an Associate independent counsel, Whitewater Independent Counsel's Office, Little Rock, Arkansas from 1994 to 1996, where she successfully prosecuted former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and Whitewater partners Jim and Susan McDougal for fraud.


see also

Bishop Chandler David Owens Sr

In August of 1995 Bishop Owens was declared an Arkansas Traveler by Governor Jim Guy Tucker, and in August of 1996 was presented the key to the city of Birmingham, Alabama, by Councilman Aldrich Gunn.