15 Facts About Joaquin Jackson

Haynie Joaquin Jackson was a Texas Ranger most notable for his appearance on the February 1994 cover of Texas Monthly magazine, after which he became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers.

Joaquin Jackson was assigned to a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border from 1966 to 1993.

Joaquin Jackson was involved in a shootout at the Carrizo Springs jail that ended a jail revolt.

Joaquin Jackson captured "The See More Kid," an elusive horse thief and burglar who left clean dishes and swept floors in the houses he burglarized.

Joaquin Jackson investigated the 1988 shootings in Big Bend's Colorado Canyon and tried to understand the motives of the Mexican teenagers who terrorized three river rafters and killed one.

Joaquin Jackson was in several movies, namely as the character Sheriff Wes Wheeler in the 1995 motion picture The Good Old Boys with Tommy Lee Jones, in the 1997 made-for-TV movie Rough Riders, and in a 1997 TV mini-series, Streets of Laredo, based on author Larry McMurtry's novel of the same title.

Joaquin Jackson played the fictional Sheriff Joaquin Jackson in the 2008 movie Palo Pinto Gold, starring singer Trent Willmon, and appears as Archie in the motion picture Poodle Dog Lounge, released in late 2008.

Joaquin Jackson served as a role model for Jeff Bridges' character Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton in the 2016 film Hell or High Water and similarly for Nick Nolte's character Texas Ranger Jack Benteen in the 1987 film Extreme Prejudice.

Joaquin Jackson was one of the last of the Garrison Rangers and resigned from the Texas Rangers in 1993 when then Gov.

Joaquin Jackson lived in Alpine, Texas, where he was the owner and operator of a private investigations firm.

Jackson had two children, Michael W Kirkpatrick and Kelly Landrith prior to marrying his wife Shirley Conder Jackson who died on February 11,2012, after a year-and-a-half-long illness.

Joaquin Jackson had two sons with Shirley, Don Joaquin Jackson and Lance Sterling Jackson, and four grandchildren, Adam Michael, Tyler Joaquin, Ellen Elizabeth, and Ann Margaret.

Joaquin Jackson was an avid hunter, golfer, and enjoyed arrowhead hunting in his retirement.

Joaquin Jackson was a member in the NRA Board of Directors and stated that he felt assault weapons, by which he meant fully-automatic machine guns, should be reserved for military and police use and that he is against high capacity magazines for those not in military or law enforcement.

Joaquin Jackson clarified that his comments about magazines were taken out of context, and that he did not support magazine bans.