Ray (Bud) Nuckols
- Age: 73
- Interview Date: 11/11/1980
- Interviewer: Shirley Marshall, University of Illinois at Springfield
- Interview Length: 245 minutes Sit Down Interview
- County: Sangamon
- James Ray (Bud) Nuckols was born in 1903 in Glasgow, Kentucky. Bud grew up on a tobacco farm in Kentucky and recounts living most of his life in Auburn, Illinois, including teaching, World War II, rural electrification and government policies.