The link, below, is for an October 26th New York Times obituary of journalist Sid Davis. Mr. Davis died on October 13th, at age 97.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/obituaries/sid-davis-dead.html?smid=url-share
As recounted in the Times obituary:
In 1959, Mr. Davis was hired as a White House correspondent by Westinghouse, which then had a national network of five television stations and seven radio stations in major markets. After a brief turn reporting on President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he covered the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations as chief of the 18-member Westinghouse Washington bureau.
He joined NBC News in 1977 as the Washington news director. He was NBC’s Washington bureau chief from 1979 to 1982 (and a vice president from 1980 to 1982), and senior correspondent from 1982 to 1987, covering the Reagan administration.
From 1987 to 1994, Mr. Davis was director of programs for the Voice of America, and until 1998 he directed worldwide Voice of America programming, in charge of 1,500 people working in 46 languages.
Much of the Times obituary, however, concerns his coverage of the 1963 Kennedy assassination.
On November 22nd, Mr. Davis was in a press bus in the presidential motorcade in Dallas. He filed reports, by phone, from Dallas's Parkland Hospital, and was subsequently one of three reporters who witnessed the swearing-in of Lyndon Johnson on Air Force One. The other journalists were Merriman Smith of UPI--who later was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the assassination--and Charles Roberts of Newsweek.
Mr. Smith and Mr. Roberts then flew to Washington on Air Force One. Yet, as described in the Times obituary, Mr. Davis "stayed in Dallas to brief the press corps on the swearing-in ceremony and his observations aboard Air Force One. He had been chosen as a pool reporter by a White House aide, not by fellow journalists, but he regarded it as a solemn obligation to represent, and report to, the press corps."
From the obituary:
Tom Wicker, who covered the assassination [for the Times], was awed by Davis’s briefing.“It ranks as one of the most generous acts by a reporter that I can remember,” he wrote in Times Talk, a staff publication. “Davis put together a magnificent pool report on the swearing-in, read it off, answered questions and gave a picture that so far as I know was complete, accurate and has not been added to.”
