First Half of the Kennedy Motorcade
Kennedy Dallas Motorcade
This screenshot of the document in Rufus Youngblood's NARA testimony folder shows the contents of each car and the locations of motorcycles in the first half of the Kennedy motorcade on November 22, 1963 in Dallas.
United States Secret Service
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7461299
National Archives
December 1963
Veronica La Du
Public Domain
Photograph of text
Photograph of text
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
LBJ and Rufus Youngblood
LBJ and Rufus Youngblood
USSS Rufus Youngblood talking to Lyndon Baines Johnson
White House Photographers
https://www.rufusyoungblood.com/index.html
Rebecca Y. Vaughn
https://www.rufusyoungblood.com/index.html
Veronica La Du
photograph
photograph
Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson en route to New York to sign the Immigration Act
LBJ and Rufus Youngblood
Lady Bird Johnson and President Lyndon B. Johnson depart from helicopter. USSS Agent Rufus Youngblood is in in background at right.
Yoichi Okamoto
http://www.lbjlibrary.net/collections/photo-archive.html
Veronica La Du
President Kennedy with Rufus Youngblood
JFK and Rufus Youngblood
President Kennedy in the foreground and Rufus Youngblood is at the back right. He was originally assigned to the presidential detail before being placed at the head of Vice Presidential detail.
National Parks Services
https://www.rufusyoungblood.com/index.html
Rebecca Y. Vaughn
https://www.rufusyoungblood.com/index.html
Veronica La Du
photograph
photograph
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
Rufus Youngblood
Rufus W. Youngblood
USSS Agent Rufus W. Youngblood in his official United States Secret Service photograph in front of a United States flag.
Leon Spencer/United State Secret Service
https://www.rufusyoungblood.com/author.html
Rebecca Y. Vaughn/RufusYoungblood.com
Veronica La Du
Rebecca Y. Vaughn
Rufus Youngblood NARA File
Rufus Youngblood
This is the folder that contains the written testimonies of most of the agents on duty during the Kennedy Assassination.
National Archives
<a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7461299">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7461299</a>
National Archives
December 18, 1963
Veronica La Du
Text
Rufus Youngblood shakes hands with President Johnson Surrounded by Family
Rufus Youngblood
Here is Rufus Youngblood shaking hands with President Johnson as his wife Peggy and his four children look on.
White House Photographic Office
https://www.rufusyoungblood.com/media.html
Rebecca Y. Vaughn https://www.rufusyoungblood.com/media.html
Veronica La Du
Copyright Rebecca Y. Vaughn
photograph
photograph
The Youngblood Family
Rufus Youngblood and Family
Rufus Youngblood, right, stands with his wife Peggy and four children, all smiling.
White House Photographic Office
https://www.rufusyoungblood.com/book.html
Rebecca Y. Vaughn
https://www.rufusyoungblood.com/book.html
Veronica La Du
All rights reserved, Rebecca Y. Vaughn.
Photograph
Photograph
Twenty Years in the Secret Service: My Live with Five Presidents
Rufus Youngblood
The 1974 cover of the memoir written by Rufus Youngblood after his retirement.
Rufus Youngblood
https://www.amazon.com/Years-Secret-Service-Life-Presidents/dp/0671216090
Simon & Schuster/Amazon
1974
Veronica La Du
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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