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Rufus Wayne Youngblood, Jr. (January 13, 1924 – October 2, 1996) was a United States Secret Service agent best known for using his body to shield Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson during the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
Mar 26, 2012 · Rufus Youngblood, the Secret Service agent in Johnson’s car, didn’t know what it was, but he saw “not normal” movements in the Presidential car ahead—President Kennedy seemed to be ...
Oct 2, 2014 · He venerated his own longtime agent Rufus Youngblood, privately recalling to an aide in 1969 — while drafting his memoirs as an ex-president — how, when the shots in Dallas were fired, the...
Sep 24, 1980 · September 23, 1980 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. It was politics that drew John F. Kennedy to Texas in November 1963 -- an ideological feud involving the supporters of Lyndon Johnson, his protege Gov. John B ...
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...
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.
Oct 4, 1996 · Rufus W. Youngblood, the Secret Service agent who flung himself over the front seat and used his body to shield Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson during the assassination of President John F....
