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  1. Oct 4, 1996 · Rufus W Youngblood, Secret Service agent who used his body as shield to protect Vice Pres Johnson during assassination of Pres Kennedy, dies at age 72; photo with Johnson (S)

  2. Known for. Shielded Lyndon B. Johnson during the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 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. [1]

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  4. Oct 2, 1996 · Rufus Youngblood; Protected LBJ: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice--Los Angeles Times (CA) - Saturday, October 5, 1996 Deceased Name: Rufus Youngblood; Protected LBJ Rufus Youngblood, 72, the Secret Service agent who threw himself on top of Lyndon B. Johnson during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

  5. Oct 4, 1996 · October 3, 1996 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. SAVANNAH, GA. -- Rufus W. Youngblood, the Secret Service agent honored for throwing himself on top of then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson to protect him during ...

  6. Nov 23, 2013 · JFK assassination: Trump to allow release of classified documents. JFK assassination: The fateful day in Dallas unfolds. When Johnson arrived home that evening, Lady Bird came downstairs with a ...

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  7. Early Life. Rufus Wayne Youngblood was born in Georgia on January 13, 1924 and grew up mostly near Atlanta. He graduated high school in 1941 at the age of 17 and spent several months enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he went on to become a waist gunner in the Eighth Air Force. He earned both a Purple Heart and an Air Medal before the war ended.

  8. Rufus Youngblood was born in 1924. After graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology he found work with Bradshaws, a refrigeration and air-conditioning company in Waycross. Later he became a consulting mechanical engineer in Atlanta. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor Youngblood joined the US Air Force and was later was wounded in an air ...

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