President Lyndon B. Johnson Attending President Kennedy's Burial
LBJ, JFK
Lyndon B. Johnson stands in the foreground at President Kennedy's burial with USSS Rufus Youngblood directly to his right.
Cecil Stoughton
https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-ST-C422-74-63.aspx
The JFK Library
November 25, 1963
Veronica La Du
photograph
photograph
Youngblood's Recounting of Johnson's Oath of Office
LBJ, Rufus Youngblood
Although his testimony includes the extremely high intensity and action packed events before this point, the last two paragraphs of Youngblood's written testimony contain his account of President Johnson's Oath of Office. He listed who was present, when it occurred, who took pictures of the event, and why he himself, always by Johnson's side, was not in the picture.
United States Secret Service, more specifically Rufus Youngblood
National Archives
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7461299/44/public?contributionType=transcription
National Archives
December 1963
Veronica La Du
Public Domain
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Word Frequency in Rufus Youngbloods December 1963 Written Testimony to the Secret Service
Kennedy Assassination
Here is a graphic made in Voyant Tools that highlights the word frequency of the 85 most used terms in Rufus Youngblood's written testimony to the Chief of the Secret Service regarding the events of November 22, 1963. The testimony itself was transcribed from the scanned pages of the original typed testimony found in the National Archives Digital Collections. It shows how much close he was in proximity to Vice President Johnson at the time of the assassination because "vice" and "president" are two of his most used words.
Veronica La Du
NARA
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7461299/44/public?contributionType=transcription
Veronica La Du
April 2018
Veronica La Du
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Officers Wait to Answer Phones
Detective Jim Leavelle, Marvin Johnson, and an unidentified detective wait for the department phone's to ring on Nov. 23, 1964.
Between President Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1964 and Oswald's assassination on Nov. 24, 1964, officers from the Dallas Police Department wait for tips and information by the department phones. Stationed in the Homicide and Robbery Bureau of the Dallas Police Department, many officers were stationed constantly by the phones. Such officers include Leavelle, Johnson, and Montgomery.
The Dallas Times Herald
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
The Dallas Times Herald
Nov. 23, 1964
Ronni Farid
Online Collection
Photograph: B&W 2.4 x 3.6 cm
Photograph
Object Number: 1989.100.0041.0009
Detective Johnson finds chicken bones and a Dr. Pepper bottle.
Detective Marvin Johnson holds a bag of chicken bones and a Dr. Pepper bottle that he and his partner, L. D. Montgomery found on the 6th floor of the TSBD.
Detective Marvin Johnson carries out evidence from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository and prepares to take them back to the Dallas Police Department headquarters in City Hall. Among the evidence is a bag of chicken bones and an empty Dr. Pepper can, both found near the south-east corner of the 6th floor.
William Allen of The Dallas Time Herald
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza- Online Collections http://emuseum.jfk.org/view/objects/asitem/classification@Photographs/125/title-asc?t:state:flow=726ac589-44f2-47a3-9e22-b98997bb0a41
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Nov. 22, 1963
Ronni Farid
Online Collection
Photograph: B&W 2.4 x 3.6 cm
Photograph
Object Number: 1989.100.0023.0008
President Johnson Greeting Crowds with USSS Rufus Youngblood
President Johnson and Rufus Youngblood
President Johnson greets crowds, USSS Agent Rufus Youngblood is behind him.
Yoichi Okamoto
Yoichi Okamoto
LBJ Library
After November 22, 1963.
Veronica La Du
Yoichi Okamoto
Photograph
Photograph
"Agent Describes Role of Shielding Johnson" Article Found on New York Times Front Page on November 28, 1963
Rufus W. Youngblood, President Johnson, and the Kennedy Assassination
An article written by Jack Vandenberg,a reporter for the NYT on Youngblood's role protecting President Johnson on the day President Kennedy was killed. This is an interview with Youngblood who is extremely forthcoming about his role in the events of that day and how he does not think his actions of bodily shielding Johnson from any gunfire is a heroic act. To him it was just what any other agent would do. He also discusses how he knew something like this would eventually happen.
Jack Vandenberg
Google Newspaper Archive and The New York Times<br />https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YEMaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XCMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4637%2C4145342
The New York Times
November 28, 1963
Veronica La Du
newspaper article scanned and published online
Newspaper article
Front Page of the New York Times, November 28, 1963
The state of the country through the headlines on the front page of the New York Times just six days after Kennedy's assassination, including an article in which Rufus W. Youngblood was interviewed on his actions that day.
This is the front page of the New York Times on Thanksgiving Day 1963, just six days after President Kennedy was assassinated. It includes a picture of the New President, Lyndon B Johnson, giving a speech to congress about how he wanted to continue Kennedy's policies and legacy, an article in which John Connally, Governor of Texas, asks why he was spared and Kennedy was shot, an article about the nation's mourning through Thanksgiving, an article about Terrorists kidnapping a Colonel, and finally an article about Rufus W. Youngblood's efforts to shield then Vice President Johnson on the day of the attack.
New York Times
New York Times<br />https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YEMaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XCMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4637%2C4145342
New York Times and Google
November 28, 1963
Veronica La Du
Newspaper