Important. [applause] all right. This ride is one that many of our guests can see the bottom of the mountain to get the idea of how big the mountain is. Announcer the carving was started in the late 1940s. Today, the work is carried on by daughters. We have been able to get the itll pieces at a time. Mounting the mountain carving has been going on since june 3, 1948. Based that off of a description of those survivors. We are right in the middle of the black hills, which is all of the black hills considered sacred people. The people. This is where they came to hunt for food. This is a place where they came to pray. Very private things have been happen here for them. They still do, just in different ways, more modern ways, but when dad got that letter in 1939 inviting him to start the mountain carving, dad decided to come out and go to pine ridge reservation. When he did, he realized he didnt know much about the native culture, so he was very inquisitive and looked at things differently,
Here. I have really been looking forward to this talk tonight because Rufus Youngblood, ive known the name, ive known who he is for a very long time. And im just delighted that we can have his family here. Weve got members of Rufus Youngbloods family here. We appreciate that. We also have tom johnson who was an aide to Lyndon Johnson who is the man that Rufus Youngblood protected and we are really glad you are here as well, tom. He knew Rufus Youngblood very well. Rufus was a secret service agent. Hes known for his actions on november 22, 1963, when shots rang out in dallas, texas, and he leaped over the seat and protected Lyndon Johnson. And continued to protect him. Johnson was one of five president s that Rufus Johnson helped protect. After graduating from georgia tech here in atlanta with a degree in Industrial Engineering, he joined the secret service back in 1951, and he protected president s truman, eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, and nixon, during his 20 year tenure with the secr
And im just delighted that we can have his family here. Weve got members of Rufus Youngbloods family here. We appreciate that. We also have tom johnson who was an aide to Lyndon Johnson who is the man that Rufus Youngblood protected and we are really glad you are here as well, tom. He knew Rufus Youngblood very well. Rufus was a secret service agent. Hes known for his actions on november 22, 1963, when shots rang out in dallas, texas, and he leaped over the seat and protected Lyndon Johnson. And continued to protect him. Johnson was one of five president s that Rufus Johnson helped protect. After graduating from georgia tech here in atlanta with a degree in Industrial Engineering, he joined the secret service back in 1951, and he protected president s truman, eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, and nixon, during his 20 year tenure with the secret service. He retired in 1971 as the agencys Deputy Director. At that time, he wrote his memoir, 20 years with the secret service. It didnt get the a