This is a signed photograph of President Johnson and Rufus Youngblood shaking hands and smiling, with the president thanking Youngblood for his service. The inscription reads "To Rufus My protector and always my friend, -Lyndon B. Johnson"
A map created through the ZeeMaps tool. A combination of addresses from the Secret Service FBI folders found on the NARA Catalogue. (Some of the addresses that were more "irrelevant" to the Secret Service group were removed.) The first close-up…
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.
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.
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…
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,…