Lyndon Johnson COMPLETELY FABRICATED the story about Secret Service agent Rufus Youngblood vaulting into the back to cover him at the moment of the JFK assassination

 Sen. Ralph Yarborough told both Jim Marrs and David Lifton (in 1980) that LBJ’s story about Secret Service agent Rufus Youngblood jumping into the back seat to press him onto the car’s floorboard after shots rang out in Dealey Plaza was a COMPLETE FABRICATION – yet another big, fat lie by LBJ and got Lady Bird and Rufus Youngblood to lie about this as well

Senator’s Ralph Yarborough's Suspicion of Lyndon Johnson

From Jim Marrs’ book Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy

"There is the well-publicized story of Agent Rufus Youngblood, who reportedly threw himself on top of Vice President Johnson after the shooting began in Dealey Plaza.... Johnson, in a statement to the Warren Commission, mentioned the incident:

I was startled by a sharp report or explosion, but I had no time to speculate as to its origin because Agent Youngblood turned in a flash, immediately after the first explosion, hitting me on the shoulder, and shouted to all of us in the back seat to get down. I was pushed down by Agent Youngblood. Almost in the same moment in which he hit or pushed me, he vaulted over the back seat and sat on me. I was bent over under the weight of Agent Youngblood's body, toward Mrs. Johnson and Senator Yarborough....

However, former Texas senator Ralph Yarborough, who was sitting beside Johnson that day, told this author: 'It just didn't happen.... It was a small car, Johnson was a big man, tall. His knees were up against his chin as it was. There was no room for that to happen.' Yarborough recalled that both Johnson and Youngblood ducked down as the shooting began and that Youngblood never left the front seat. Yarborough said Youngblood held a small walkie-talkie over the back of the car's seat and that he and Johnson both put their ears to the device. He added: 'They had it turned down real low. I couldn't hear what they were listening to.'"
--Jim Marrs, Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy

Ralph Yarborough's Suspicion of the Warren Commission Investigators:

"A couple of fellows [from the Warren Commission] came to see me. They walked in like they were a couple of deputy sheriffs and I was a bank robber. I didn't like their attitude. As a senator I felt insulted. They went off and wrote up something and brought it back for me to sign. But I refused. I threw it in a drawer and let it lay there for weeks. And they had on there the last sentence which stated: 'This is all I know about the assassination.' They wanted me to sign this thing, then say this is all I know. Of course, I would never have signed it. Finally, after some weeks, they began to bug me. 'You're holding this up, you're holding this up' they said, demanding that I sign the report. So I typed one up myself and put basically what I told you about how the cars all stopped. I put in there, 'I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings but for the protection of future presidents, they should be trained to take off when a shot is fired.' I sent that over. That's dated July 10, 1964, after the assassination. To my surprise, when the volumes were finally printed and came out, I was surprised at how many people down at the White House didn't file their affidavits until after the date, after mine the 10th of July, waiting to see what I was going to say before they filed theirs. I began to lose confidence then in their investigation and that's further eroded with time."

 

David Lifton, email to Robert Morrow on his 1980 interview with Ralph Yarborough:

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I interviewed Ralph Yarborough--at length--in January, 1980. He was still furious over the fact that Lyndon Johnson said that agent Youngblood vaulted over the front seat and sat on top of him. No such thing ever occurred, said Yarborough. "It’s just a fabrication. It didn't happen at all," he said, angry that Johnson had the conceit to concoct such a story, when Yarborough was seated right there, in the rear seat, and knew it was all a fiction."

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David S. Lifton
Author, BEST EVIDENCE

LBJ's Account of Rufus Youngblood's Actions:

Johnson: “…it is apparent that there were many reactions to the first shot…I did not know what it was. Agent Youngblood spun around, shoved me on the shoulder to push me down and shouted to all of us, “Get down!”Almost in the same movement, he vaulted over the seat, pushed me to the floor, and sat on my right shoulder to keep me down and to protect me. Agent Youngblood’s quick reaction was as brave an act as I have ever seen anyone perform. When a man, without a moment’s thought or hesitation, places himself between you and a possible assassin’s bullet, you know you have seen courage. And you never forget it.”