TBI
Americanabbreviation
plural
TBIs-
Medicine/Medical. traumatic brain injury: damage to the brain from a source outside the body, such as an object that strikes the head violently or penetrates the skull, which causes symptoms ranging from headache and dizziness to permanent physical or mental disability.
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Automotive. throttle-body injection: a fuel-injection system in which an injector delivers fuel to a central location within the intake manifold of the engine.
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It was initially a counterpoint to the Pusser museum’s biannual official bus tour, though this year’s was postponed amid the fallout from the TBI investigation.
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Sorting through the 1,000-page TBI file and associated audio and video requires, as Connie Elam, Mike’s wife, told me, a “police officer’s eye for details.”
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The tour traces important touchstones in the Pusser legend, including, at the end, the place where Pusser claimed that Pauline died, inspiring the blockbuster films, Pusser’s fame, Elam’s decades of work, and, ultimately, the TBI’s decision to revisit the case.
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Allen peppered me with a running commentary on the TBI investigation and his view of the corrupt nature of sheriffs, especially in Pusser’s day.
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The tour next went to see Pusser’s grave, as well as the disturbed dirt where his wife had been reburied, after TBI agents disinterred Pauline’s body and conducted the autopsy that had never happened in 1967.
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