/internal/media/dispatcher/73280/fullSid Davis Oral History11/21/2003Duration: 44 MinutesDigital-8 videotapeOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2003.001.00490Videotaped oral history interview with Sid Davis. The White House correspondent for NBC News in 1963, Mr. Davis was traveling with the presidential party through Texas and was one of the few reporters aboard Air Force One for the swearing-in of President Johnson.Oral Histories6432824694Oral historyVideotaped oral history interview with Sid Davis. After covering the 1960 presidential campaign for Westinghouse Broadcasting, Davis became their White House Correspondent and closely followed Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. He was in the Oval Office during Kennedy’s televised address during the Cuban missile crisis and was riding in the Dallas motorcade on November 22, 1963. Davis was one of three pool reporters aboard Air Force One for the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 21, 2003 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-four minutes long.Oral historiesAir Force OneReporterTrip to TexasOath of officeCuban Missile CrisisDavis, SidJohnson, Lyndon B.Smith, MerrimanNBC NewsDallasNews Media (OHC)Motorcade Spectators (OHC)Cuba (OHC)A longtime friend of The Sixth Floor Museum, Sid Davis has participated in oral histories and public programs on multiple occasions. On the same day as this one-on-one 2003 oral history, he was part of a two-part Sixth Floor Museum symposium to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination. Nearly fourteen years later, he returned to the Museum for another oral history and a public program, "From the Oval Office to Dallas Love Field: White House Correspondent Sid Davis Remembers," on October 23, 2017. That program may be viewed in full on the Museum's YouTube channel: From the Oval Office to Dallas Love Field: White House Correspondent Sid Davis Remembers - YouTube.
Mr. Davis kindly loaned his portable typewriter, mentioned during this interview, for the Museum's special exhibit, Covering Chaos, which ran June 2005 to January 2006. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator Sid Davis passed away on October 13, 2025. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger