Word: youngbloods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Youngblood Hawke pays excessive respect to the antic Hollywood tradition of turning bad novels into worse movies. Herman Wouk's 1962 bestseller about a young novelist's spectacular career seemed to be written with one eye on Thomas Wolfe and one eye on an eventual film sale, but this foresighted assist did not save the movie from ineptitude...
...Down!" Two cars to the rear, in the Lincoln carrying the Lyndon Johnsons and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough, Secret Service Man Rufus W. Youngblood heard "an explosive noise." He wheeled around from the front seat, hit Johnson on the shoulder and yelled, "Get down!" Reported Johnson: "Almost in the same moment in which Youngblood 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...
...believe Rufus Youngblood, who was guarding then Vice President Johnson at the time of the assassination, is the same man with whom I served in World War II. I would like these additional facts to be known if he is the same...
...14th or 15th birthday, he, was flying combat missions over Europe. At 18, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. Rufus Youngblood was already willing to lay down his life for his country even before...
...Rufus Wayne Youngblood was not quite as young as Reader Picha remembers, but almost. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps at the age of 17 in 1941, telling the Air Corps that he was 18. As an aerial engineer he flew combat missions in B-17s over Brest, Romilly and Saint-Na-zaire, earning a Purple Heart and an Air Medal. He was discharged as a second lieutenant in 1945 at the-finally admitted...