Sid Davis, Reporter Who Witnessed Johnson’s Swearing-In, Dies at 97
Sid Davis, a White House correspondent for Westinghouse Broadcasting and one of three reporters who witnessed the swearing-in of Lyndon B. Johnson as president aboard Air Force One after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, died on Oct. 13 at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 97.
The cause was the failure of multiple organs, his son Morse said.
In a broadcast journalism career that spanned four decades and covered the political campaigns and global travels of nine presidents, Mr. Davis was a careful analyst and an authoritative voice for national radio and television audiences of Westinghouse, and later of NBC News and the Voice of America, for which he was a news executive and journalist.
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