Cameron "Buck" Williams

Cameron "Buck" Williams
Left Behind character
Chad Michael Murray as Buck Williams in the 2014 reboot.
First appearance	Left Behind
Last appearance	Kingdom Come
Created by	Tim LaHaye Jerry B. Jenkins
Portrayed by	Original series: (2000–2005) Kirk Cameron Rebooted film: (2014) Chad Michael Murray
Information
Gender	Male
Occupation	News reporter
Spouse(s)	Chloe Steele
Children	Kenny Bruce Williams (son, with Chloe)
Relatives	Rayford Steele (father-in-law) Irene Steele (mother-in-law) Raymie Steele (brother-in-law)
Religion	Christian
Nationality	American

Cameron "Buck" Williams is a fictional character in the Left Behind series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Buck is a celebrated news reporter who, after being left behind at the Rapture, becomes one of the founding members of the Tribulation Force.

Buck was born 30 years before the Rapture in Tucson, Arizona. Highly intelligent and eager to escape his rural, uneducated roots, he attends Princeton University and trains as a journalist, working as a reporter for the Boston Globe. After college, he realizes his dream of writing for Global Weekly, a prestigious weekly news magazine. Williams is promoted to senior writer at 29, the youngest in the magazine's history. During this time, Buck makes a name for himself with his willingness to rush into danger for a good story, and he acquires his nickname from his willingness to "buck" journalistic traditions.

Approximately 14 months before the Rapture, he is sent on assignment in Israel, interviewing Israeli botanist Chaim Rosenzweig, creator of the "Eden" formula. During the interview, a multinational air strike force advances on Israel, but before either side can fire a shot, the attacking jets explode in mid-air, while Buck watches from an Israeli military compound. Upon returning to the United States, dumbstruck, he meets with Global Weekly's Chicago bureau chief, Lucinda Washington, who attempts to persuade him that the attack fulfills prophecies made in the book of Ezekiel from the Bible. While Buck agrees that only divine intervention could have destroyed the attacking force in the way he saw, he does not yet dare to seek a personal relationship with God.