BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Olympic decathlon gold medalist, occasional Hollywood actor, he even helped take down the man who shot and killed Robert F. Kennedy. Rafer Johnson is known for many ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, has died. He was 86. Family friend Michael Roth says Johnson ...

UCLA Athletics announced plans to publicly honor the late Rafer Johnson following his death late last year. The department sent a save the date to season-ticket holders Tuesday morning for a ...

Saturday, July 28, 1984, date of the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, was a huge day in the history of sports. It transcended athletics. In the next day’s Los Angeles Times, under a ...

Rafer Johnson, an Olympic gold medal winner and goodwill ambassador, died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home, his family confirmed. He was 86. Johnson carried the American flag into Rome's Olympic ...

In this July 28, 1984, file photo, 1960 U.S. gold medal decathlete Rafer Johnson carries the Olympic torch through the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before lighting the Olympic flame and formally ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The Rafer Johnson Community Day School principal says the donation means so much to them, especially during Black History Month because they will use it to buy books about ...

KINGSBURG, Calif. (KFSN) -- There is a new push for late Olympic legend and actor Rafer Johnson to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. California Senator Alex Padilla led a bipartisan ...

An Olympic pioneer died this week. Rafer Johnson won gold in the 1960 decathlon and led the Olympic team as its first Black captain. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Let's go back to the beginning. Rafer Johnson ...