Louis Bert Lindley, Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by the stage name Slim Pickens, was a cowboy and actor.

His most famous role was as B-52 pilot Major T. J. "King" Kong in Dr. Strangelove, which ended with Pickens riding an H-bomb down to global destruction. He was chosen because he naturally fit the role of an absurdly patriotic and gung-ho cowboy-type officer, and in fact was not even told that the movie was a comedy: he was instructed to play the role straight, and was only given script portions for the scenes he was in, rather than a script for the whole film. He is best known for both the scene riding the bomb to destruction, and his over-the-top speech early in the film, after his character learns of the mission to bomb Russia: