Medford mail tribune., November 28, 1963, Image 2

Agent Describes
Shielding Johnson
At Time of Killing
WAKHIVrtTriN fTIPH "T
have been drawing my p a y
check every two weeks since
1951 knowing this could come
up. I hope it never happens
again but it it does I'll be pre
pared for it." .
That is the way the Secret
Service agent who shielded
President Johnson with his own
body summed up his feelings
about "the valiant manner" in
which he "responded to the
tragic circumstances" in Dal
las, Tex., last Friday.
Agent Rufus W. Youngblood
agreed to talk to reporters
about his role in the Dallas tra
gedy only because President
Johnson made public a letter he
sent to Secret Service Chief
James Rowley, commending the
agent
"Upon hearing the first shot,
Mr. Young blood, instantly
across the front seat of my car,
pushed me to the floor and
shielded my body with his own
body, ready to sacrifice his life
for mine," Johnson said. .
But the lithe, six-foot agent
said he felt "any agent in the
service would have done the
same thing." He said this as
though he could not believe any
one might think otherwise.
Showed No Emotion
His Georgia accent showed no
trace of emotion of any kind as
Thompson Said
Incapable of
Plotting Murder
By GEORGE B. BROWN
United Press International
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI)
T. Eugene Thompson, 35, a
dimple-cheeked criminal attor
ney charged with mastermind
in the "murder-for-hiro" of his
heiress wife, was "entirely in
capable" of plotting the slaying,
his lawyer said Wednesday.
Hyam Segell told the murder
trial jury in a three-minute
statement launching Thomp
son's defense that his client's
profession, character and back
ground made it impossible for
him to commit "a crime of this
horrendous nature."
The prosecution rested its
case Wednesday . and Segell
called only a few witnesses to
the stand before the trial was
adjourned to 10:30 a.m. EST,
Friday.
. . Poy Alleged
The state claims that Thomp
son plotted and paid for the
botched bludgeon ana siaomng
slaying of his pretty wife, Car
ol, 34, mother of four.
Hard-drinking Korean War
veteran Dick W. C. Anderson,
35, admitted the actual slaying
and named former boxer Nor
man J. Mastrian as the mid
dleman. The prosecution con
tends Thompson masterminded
the slaying to collect more than
$1 million ' Insurance on his
wife's life and take up a new
life with his paramour.
Segell, in his opening state
ment, referred to Thompson's
extra-marital, affair ns "a slip
on this man's part." He did not
mention by name the part di
vorcee Jackie Olescn, who tes
tified previously to numerous
romantic . rendezvous with
Thompson at hotels, motels and
his lakeside summer cottage.
Possible Knowledge
Mrs. Douglas Young, the first
defense witness and a former
classmate of Carol Thompson
at MacAlester College in 1M6.
brought out the possibility that
Mrs. Thompson knew about the
"other woman."
She said Carol expressed con
cern when Thompson had tak
en a trip alone to Washington
in late summer 1962. Mrs.
Young said Carol asked her:
"Would you know if your hus
band was having an affair?"
Friends of the Thompsons
Mrs. Young; Dr. Carl D. Kout-
skl, a University of Minnesota
psychiatrist; and Robert Erick
son testified that the victim
and her husband appeared to
have a generally good relationship.
he related his recollections of
the hectic events which followed
the first shot fired at the Ken
nedy motorcade in Dallas.
Perhaos it was the braverv
which won him a Purple Heart
in World War II or his training
in the Secret Service, but
Youngblood reacted from re
flex when he first sensed dan
ger in the motorcade.
1 did not recognize tne first
shot as a shot," Youngblood
said. "It could have been a fire
cracker, a bomb or a shot. I
only recognized it as an ab
normal sound. ,
In the Dallas motorcade,
there was only one security car
between Johnson's and Ken
nedy's limousines.
When the shots were fired,
Youngblood reached over the
seat and grabbed the shoulder
of the vice president, who was
sitting behind him.
He shoved Johnson to the
floor, yelling to Mrs. Johnson
and Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D-
Tex., to "get down."
Although everyone responded
to his first yell, Youngblood
said he recalled repeating it
several times.
"I believe that at the same
time I was coming over the
back of the seat," Youngblood
said. "I leaned my body over
Mr. Johnson and told the driver
to step on it. By this time we
were evacuating, so to speaK.
Praise For Driver
Youngblood had special praise
for the driver, Texas highway
patrolman Herschel Jacks.
He did a real good iod,"
Youngblood said of Jacks. "I
was talking to him all the time
I was leaning over Mr. John
son. He wasn't talking, but he
was responding.
Youngblood said he and
everyone else in the car re
mained in the same position
below the window line of the
car until they reached Park
land Hospital, where Kennedy
had been taken.
Youngblood said he felt he re
acted to a combination of sight
and sound.
I heard three explosions but
I think the quick, unusual move
ments in the President's car
also made me react," Young
blood said. "I'm not sure I re
acted on the first shot, between
the first and the second or on
the second.
1 had no Idea where the
shots had come from. I didn't
even know what they were at
the time. But I saw the quick
unusual movements up ahead
and saw someone on the turtle
(trunk lid) of that car up there
and I knew that an emergency
existed.
'Mutiny on Bounty' Said Unforgettable For Movie Goers
"Mutiny on the Bounty," the
water-logged epic that threaten
ed to sink a studio, is an un
forgettable experience. .
One 8 spine will remember it
with an ache long after the film
itself is mercifully forgotten. For
3'2 hours, the Marlon Brando
directed movie meandered all
over the Holly theater screen
last night on an . exhausting
journey leading nowhere.
Whimsically based on the
novel of the same name by
Charles Nordoff and James Nor
man Hall, this movie will stand
as a barnacle - encrusted monu
ment to the danger of permit
ting an actor to produce the film
that he stars in.
Expensive Disaster
Rumor has it that Brando
blew $14,000,000 (or some such
fantastic figure) in shoot
ing the movie, surely one of
the most expensive disasters in
film history. Studio lawyers
have finally figured out a way
to use it as a tax write-off, but
we doubt if the surly method
actor will ever direct again.
The plot is simple enough. In
1787, it seems, the British Ad
miralty decided to dispatch a
ship to Tahiti to bring back
some breadfruit plants to see if
they might be successfully
transplanted In other climates.
Th idea was to use the bread
fruit as an inexpensive staple
food for common laborers in
the English colonies.
Once Branded Retarded, Idaho
Man Now Operates Own Store
By RICHARD CHARNOCK
United Press International '
CALDWELL, Idaho (UPD
There is something very special
about a young Caldwell busi
nessman named George Ran
dall. For 21 years of his life from
the ages of 5 through 26 he lay
in an institution for the feeble
minded at nearby Nampa, sup
posedly incapable of thinking,
learning or feeling.
Today, at 31, he is an inde
pendent businessman owning
his own newsstand and book
store. By test, it has been
shown he has an IQ that is near
genius. . ,
Yet he has never walked,
never talked.
His story, told in the recently
published third edition of his
autobiography, "Castor Oil and
Laughter," is that of a deep
seated and God-given yearning
for self expression.
It is the triumph of a man,
with the help of society, over
the crippling effects of celebral
palsy.
Blob of Flesh
Born in 1932, George Randall
was placed in the Nampa State
School for the Mentally Re
tarded by his parents at the ase
of five. They had become con
vinced, he says, "That my
twisted and crippled body . . .
and lack of ability to communi
cate in any way were more
then they could cope with."
"At the age of five," he says,
"I was little more than a con
vulsive supposedly unknowing,
unthinking, suffering and crip
pled blob of flesh."
And for the next 15 years he
was little more than that until
nurses and attendants discov
ered a glimmering of intelli
gencehe began pointing to
words he saw in books.
This led to word and picture
association and soon Gerge
Randall was able to study
reading, history, mathematics
and spelling. His instructors say
he learned very rapidly.
Although he had little muscle
control, he was able to use his
left hand. He pointed to letters
on an alphabet board and soon
was able to communicate. Then
he learned to punch a type
writer with two fingers. He was
taken to the school's workshop
and there he learned to saw and
paint, making simple articles
from wood when helped.
Learns to Read
By the end of three years, he
was able to read at the sixth
grade level. This led to report-
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
WASHINGTON President Johnson, in his first address to a
joint session of Congress:
"All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here
today."
Ken-
DALLAS Gov. John Connally recounting Mrs. John F,
neuy s reaction the moment the President was shot:
"She said, 'Oh my God, they have killed my husband Jack!
Jack!"
WASHINGTON-Mrs. Johnson after hearing her husband, the
President, deliver his first major speech:
. "... It was great and I have faith."
UNDATED The late President Kennedy in his Thanksgiving
Day proclamation Issued belore his death:
"Lei us earnestly and humbly pray that He will continue to
guide and sustain us In the great unfinished tasks of achieving
peace, Justice and understanding among all men and nations and
of ending misery and suffering wherever they exist."
ing for tne scnooi paper, nio
stories were Door at first but his
instructors pointed out his mis
takes and he didn't make them
again.
Finally, his teachers collected
iha sfnrips into a Damphlet
which was mimeographed and
r..nrto Randall sold them.
This was the book which now is
in its third edition.
Since his release irom
Nampa State School in 1958,
r.ira- Randall with the help
of the people of Caldwell has
progressed to ownersnip ra
newsstand and bookstore. To
day, he is independent. He
reads, writes, communicates
throuah his alphabet board and
shares, as he puts it, "in the
joys of community venture."
"I have been privileged to
cast my vote in federal, state
and local elections," ne says.
"I have received honors and
recognition, and I have been
ahl in call attention, by my
success, to the plight of those
less fortunate than I.
Mv life is full and laughter
has never deserted me . . .
'Out of the darkness of illit
eracy, suffering ana Hopeless
ness, i nave come into me
brieht hope of security, se it-
confidence and happiness.1
Portland Mother
Has 15th Child
PORTLAND (UPI) Mrs.
Rosemary Karlberer, 42, gave
birth Wednesday to her 15th
child at St.. Vincent Hospital
here.
The new arrival was a girl,
7 pounds. 15 ounces.
Mrs. Karlberer is the wife of
Joseph T. Karlberer, operator of
Kal's Supermarket grocery in
Lake Grove.
The family's new arrival
makes a total of nine girls and
six boys, ranging in age from
the new arrival, one day, to
21 years. i
Thirteen of the children were
at home to' hear the good news.
One son was at Fort Bliss, Tex.,
where he is serving in the Army,
H.M.S. Bounty was selected
and Lt. Bligh, played by Trev
or Howard, was given the ship
as his first command. Brando
plays Fletcher Christian, the
Bounty's first officer.
Cannot Speak French
It is evident in the first reel
that all will not be well on the
vovaee. CaDtain Bligh cannot
speak French, and is, therefore,
clearly no gentleman. And as
the Admiralty Court of Inquiry
establishes near the end of the
film, only gentlemen make
good officers.
But Bliizh has other proD-
W, tnn His nhflnKnnhv of
command is to rule by fear.
Alter watcning a seaman iiog
oH with a lead-wetehted cat-
n'.nlna.tailfi Rliffh hirnit tn his
first officer and observes dryly
that cruelly wiin a purpose is
not cruelty."
Hut Rliffh has nurrmse aolentv
and in the ensuing months the
sing of the cat's lash gets to be
a inn familiar sound on the
Bounty. At one point, in a burst
of sadistic ingenuity, ne orders
a man keel-hauled. Unfortunate
ly, a shark intervenes, and the
viewer never knows whether
the sailor might have survived
that supreme sea-going punishment.
Mutiny' Takes Place
The, crow's mutterincs . in
crease hour by weary hour as
Rtlffh Avprrearhpa himself in
forcing the crew to "curse their
mothers lor ever giving blrui"
to them. At long last, sullen
fiSrdt nrfirAt RranHn pan stand
no more, and the mutiny takes
place.
nllnh anH enmn nf his lnval
regulars are put adrift in the
longboat, and tne mutineers
head the ship back to Tahiti to
talra nn a mmnlv nf women.
headed by the swivel - hipped
Tarita, Brando's real-life para
mour, according to tne gossip
columnists, during the shooting
of the film.
No sooner have the mutineers
found a haven on the incorrect-
Iw-nhartoH PUpnim Island, than
Brando begins to have twinges
of conscience. He announces mo
plan to return to England to
clear the whole matter up, but
his purpose is thwarted by
three of the crew who set lire
to the Bounty.
. Mortally Injured
Brando is mortally injured in
his attempts to put out the
fire. With his last breath, he
mumbles pointlessly, "Bligh
left his mark on us all."
The camera then pans around
just in time to see the Bounty,
onrtfpntislv ahlaze. slide off the
reef and sink beneath the waves
about an hour and a half be
hind schedule.
As an actress, the wooden
faced Tarita is one whale of
a dancer. She makes the Ha
waiian Hula look like a sedate
two-step, and in the proper
costume, she could revive bur
lesque all by herself.
Trevor Howard plays a cold-
eyed, granite-jawed Bligh with
malevolent skill. Director Bran
do gave him his share of close
ups, and he didn't waste one of
them. With just a slight widen
ing of the eyelid, just a barely
perceptible curling ot tne up,
Howard strolls off with the act
ing honors in the movie, such
as they are.
One of the junior officers, in
a moment of pique, calls Brando
a "supercilious poseur." He is
all of that and more. His British
accent is as phony as a lead
shilling, and he usually conveys
all the studied expressions of a
cigar store Indian.
It is appropriate that "Mu
tiny on the Bounty" is showing
today at the Holly theater.
It's a turkey .-G.B.H.
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lower Mississippi Valley this
evening. The mercury was ex
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mal In the Ohio Valley and cen
tral Atlantic states.
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rnuntrv Wednesday night from
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Minnesota and into the north
era Rockies.
A few heavy thunderstorms
hit Texas, with Palaclcs, Tex.,
reporting 1.48 inches oi rain in
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