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In 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson remarked "My life is in the hands of Georgia and it is 24 hours a day under the direction of Rufus Youngblood, and no greater or more noble son has this state ever produced, and no braver or more courageous man." The following year Youngblood was promoted to assistant director of the Secret Service.
Aug 27, 2018 · Then there was a loud crack, then two more closer together and Secret Service Agent Rufus Youngblood threw himself on Johnson, whose limo was two cars behind the president’s, screaming, “Get down!
dickerson asks lbj's permission to film tv program on jack valenti or rufus youngblood, and to interview lynda bird johnson and warrie lynn smith on today show; lbj declines program on staff, comments on wh staff organization, okays interview with lynda
Oct 5, 1996 · Rufus Youngblood, 72, the Secret Service agent who threw himself on top of Lyndon B. Johnson during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Youngblood was assigned to Johnson from 1961 to ...
Rufus Wayne Youngblood is best known as the U.S. Secret Service agent who shielded Vice President Johnson during the tragic Kennedy assassination. Born in Macon, Georgia, in 1924, he was raised in Atlanta and enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack. During World War II, he flew in some of the Eighth Air Force ...
Apr 20, 2024 · There is no confirmation OTHER than Sen. Ralph Yarborough that LBJ and his personal Secret Service agent Rufus Youngblood were listening to a walkie talkie turned down low mere moments before a bullet or bullets blow off JFK's head.
Nov 17, 2013 · Lyndon Johnson's biographer on the way he—and the 36th president—spent November 22, 1963 ... Rufus Youngblood in Johnson’s car hears the noise, doesn’t know what it is, but he says, “I ...
