- Joe Friday's first partner in "Dragnet"
- In the first episode after Barton Yarborough's death "The Big Sorrow", the radio episode begins with a brief dedication to him by Jack Webb. The episode fittingly ends with Joe Friday mistakenly calling his new partner "Ben".
- The only "Dragnet" partner taller than Joe Friday
- In the 1940s, appeared in "Hawk Larabee" radio show with another future "Dragnet" co-star, Barney Phillips
- According to a 1982 radio interview with actor Vic Perrin--who played in numerous radio and TV episodes of Dragnet--Yarborough was stricken with the flu immediately after filming the second episode of the TV Dragnet, dying four days later.
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