Sid Davis, reporter who witnessed Johnson’s swearing-in, dies at 97

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Sid Davis interviewing President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House in 1965. (The New York Times/via Sid Davis)

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, Maryland. He was 97.

The cause was the failure of multiple organs, his son Morse said.

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