Career
Nick Nolte is said to have modeled his character in the movie Extreme Prejudice on him. Frank Hayes stated the racial slurs, according to court documents, that he had killed one Mexican and was going to kill another. Richard Morales died of a double-barrel sawed-off shotgun blast.
Joaquin Jackson was assigned to a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border from 1966 to 1993.
He was involved in a shootout at the Carrizo Springs jail that ended a prison revolt. He captured "The See More Kid," an elusive horse thief and burglar who left clean dishes and swept floors in the houses he robbed.
He 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. While a, Jackson was instrumental in starting the career of country singer Johnny Rodriguez.
In 1969, a teenage Rodriguez was jailed and would often sing in his cell.
Jackson, who overheard Rodriguez and was impressed by his voice, told his friend, music promoter "Happy" Shahan, about him, and Shahan then hired Rodriguez for his first singing gigs. Jackson has been 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-television movie Rough Riders, and in a 1997 television mini-series, Streets of Laredo, based on author Larry McMurtry"s book of the same title. Jackson retired from the s in 1993.
He currently lives in Alpine, Texas, where he is the owner and operator of a private investigations firm.
He has two sons, Don Joaquin Jackson and Lance Sterling Jackson. He has two grandsons: Don Joaquin"s son Adam Michael and Lance"s son Tyler Jackson.
Jackson is currently a member in the National Rifle Association Board of Directors. However somewhat contrary to this position, he has stated that he feels assault weapons should be reserved for military and police use and that he is against high capacity magazines for those not in military or law enforcement.