Eyewitness to History: A Foreign Correspondent's Exciting Adventures

Ivor Davis was a foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express and the Times of London, covering some of the biggest stories in North America in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1962, he was smuggled onto the campus of the riot-torn University of Mississippi when James Meredith was enrolled as the first Black student on campus. Three years later he was on the front lines as the Los Angeles’ Watts riots erupted. He was the only British daily newspaper correspondent to cover The Beatles’ first American tour from start to finish, given unparalleled access to John, Paul, George and Ringo. Ivor was in the kitchen at the Ambassador Hotel when Robert Kennedy was assassinated. He was one of the “Boys on the Bus” chronicling the life of actor-turned-politician Ronald Reagan, first in his campaign for governor of California, then for president.

Join us for a fascinating trip through Ivor’s eyewitness accounts of monumental American events.

Ivor Davis penned a weekly entertainment column for the New York Times Syndicate for over 15 years, interviewing some of the biggest names in show business, from Cary Grant to Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton to Tom Cruise and Muhammad Ali to Jane Fonda. As a foreign correspondent, he traveled throughout the western hemisphere covering riots, floods, earthquakes and politics. As Editor at Large for Los Angeles Magazine, he and his late wife Sally Ogle Davis wrote over 100 major magazine and cover stories.

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