From the Oval Office to Dallas Love Field: White House Correspondent Sid Davis Remembers
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- As White House Correspondent for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Sid Davis closely followed President Kennedy on an almost daily basis. In this special presentation, marking the 55th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, Davis shared candid memories from two of the most significant stories he covered during the Kennedy years. In October 1962, Davis was in the Oval Office when President Kennedy demanded that Soviet missiles be removed from Cuba. Just over a year later, Davis covered the Kennedy assassination and was one of three journalists to witness the swearing-in of President Johnson aboard Air Force One at Love Field.
During his lengthy career as a network journalist, Davis was Washington Bureau Chief for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company from 1960 to 1978, and then became vice president and Washington Bureau chief for NBC News until 1982. Davis traveled the globe covering, interviewing or directing coverage of nine U.S. presidents.
This conversation was moderated by Curator Stephen Fagin and took place on October 23, 2017. To see related films, photos, documents and oral histories from The Sixth Floor Museum's collection, visit our online collections database (emuseum.jfk.org). Or make a research appointment to explore the books, DVDs and other materials available in the Museum's Reading Room (www.jfk.org/the-collections/re....
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This man is sharp as a tack -- thank you for this outstanding interview!
Incredibly interesting interview. Thanks.
sid's voice breaking as he reported from the white house on nov 23, 1963💔
Not only are his comments about the past riveting, but his keen observations on today's events are thought provoking. Thanks for this segment.
Disagree about Sid’s viewpoint of today’s government and politics. If the government was still working like Sid’s description, the ‘swamp’ would be even deeper than it is today. At least today, governments around the world know that the President means business and he isn’t afraid of any of them. I’m in my 60’s and am thrilled with the progress of the past three years...including Co-Vid19.
@@Marlowe327 You are now on record as saying that you are happy with the progress of Covid-19. Yes, the old fever swamp was arguably drained after 2016, replaced by a bigger, more putrid one, containing even more scummy and iniquitous swamp creatures, a sub-aqueous rogues gallery of grifters. Update 1-20-21: The waffle house brigade did not dare storm the White House as it had the Capitol; and the morally collapsed, nouveau swamp creature, criminal, incompetent and traitor, has at last left the building. The country's four-year-long national nightmare has finally ended.
@@stddisclaimer8020 syphilis don't rot yo brain there STD.....
@@thelugoffgamecock792 "The Jagoff Dwarfcock" comes by his "brain rot" quite naturally, doesn't he?
LMAO
We lost probably the best thing that ever happened to this country on that fateful day. There was never anybody like him
Yes we did . JfK was a real leader . Taken from us way too soon . The country seemed to falter after that.
JFK : a mob elected eliitist whose cowardly self-contered hmmorality nearly doomed the U.S.
one of the best interviews I've heard from the 6th Floor
I enjoyed literally every minute of this. He is a very engaging storyteller.
It is good and keeps your attention . What if JFK had lived for a second term ?
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This was a great interview. Very sharp memory. Plus I have to give love to anybody representing O-H-I-O!
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Mr. Davis is still sharp as a tack at his age. Great stories; extremely interesting. Davis just took control of the interview from the start.
Well this is indiscreet ... the phone call between JFK and Ike about the likely Soviet response to invading Cuba.. The most serious thing imaginable. I thought JFK was bored by making some historically needed out reach, but he was actively being distracted, snickering and suppressed background giggles. I think this captured Jack being Jack.
Very illuminating on Johnson but only because he was a witness to some very candid comments made by Johnson. Davis was a good correspondent, a reliable witness, but not an investigative journalist. These are two very different kinds of journalism.
I enjoyed his talk immensely from a newsman. The little stories that he knew made it special. Newsmen are a pretty savvy bunch in their views.
These interviews are fascinating. I did want to say that while it’s true the President has the duty to protect the press the press has the duty to tell the TRUTH. It has been a while since I trusted anything the press said about anything.
That's on you. Are you reading to learn or reading to find something you agree with?
@@TonyWud Reading hopefully to learn the truth. I would hope we all would be seeking the same thing. The problem is who can you really trust to tell the truth? You may have a source you believe but maybe I don't trust them as much as you for some reason. Visa versa of course.
It may be on me, but how can I by my lonesome know if I am being told the truth? Is the Dog wagging it's tail, or is the tail wagging the Dog? How do YOU know? Sure, maybe it is easier to just go with what you wanted to hear, but that isn't always the truth.
@@bruscifer Being skeptical isn't a bad thing. It is harder now because of the sheer volumes of info we have to wade through. Like trying to get a drink of water from a firehose.
@@TonyWud Precisely. Caught in a wonderful world of the future most of us never dreamed would happen. Information at our fingertips and yet now we are faced with the sad fact that there is little to no way of discerning who is telling the truth.
Nixon said "I lost to a powder puff",referring to the makeup issue, not his opponent.
Tony M Nixon had big brass balls.
@@sartainja He's more like a man, like most men (not all) that wake up one day, and realize they NEVER had any BALLS! That's because there BALLS were never big enough to STAND UP and accept RESPONSIBILITY, especially when its MOST important
Why isn't Steven the Director?
We have much respect for you and we appreciate your telling your story because it is seriously fascinating and such a treasure from someone that was there. However, you say Washington is not a swamp is false. We are not referring to the actual District, we are referring to the entrenched elected officials who have f....d up our country and they are who we mean when we say drain the swamp and we deify anyone to counter the truth.
You are exactly spot-on right on that point, Mr. Sullivan; Washington is indeed a swamp, infested by snakes, gators, and other varmints we don't want to think about, but can't deny their presence, and their capability of poisoning and killing whatever gets in their way.
So sad we lost the greatest president we will ever have .
It’s too bad that Kennedy did not consult Eisenhower before the Bay of Pigs.
The Kennedy-Nixon debate was old news when I was a kid. Two or three sentences covers it fine.
Mr. Davis is very interesting. Except you can see his political bias come through. He never has anything bad to say about Kennedy. He pours on the put-downs of Nixon.
And the Republicans running the government today.
@@Marlowe327 NOT today...
If I could count them all I bet Mr. Davis had 200 negatives to say about Nixon and about five for Kennedy if that. I suppose he does admit his bias but tries to make himself sound perfectly neutral. No i can see the bias. That said, Mr. Davis is very interesting and I love to listen to him except when he gets overly political.;
Nixon and his administration were corrupt and a disgrace to the country.
@@formermpc10 all US Administrations are corrupt. Wake up programmed sheep.
If no cover up need open files
47:00 Well you can prevent the assassination by not having open car motorcades in crowded downtowns.
...with lots of open windows..
megalomaniac & institutional racist, JFK not only demanded the convertible ; the reckless serial predator ordered the Secrat Service to stand down
Turns out DJT was correct. Weird how that works
“Thank you fearless leader”
I wish you’d stop letting people use the Living History presentations as a political soapbox. No matter which way they lean. It’s inappropriate and they should be briefed to stay on topic and not try to push biases.
Agreed. In retrospect north korea was handled perfectly.
1:20:00 And he's now on his soapbox running his mouth. Totally off topic.
Why wouldn't one speak badly about Nixon? NIX-ON NIXON!
Obviously he was close to the inner circle yet, he doesn't have a clue as to what was really going on in that inner circle.
LHO didn't acting alone, if that so please someone explain me the last shot filmed by the zapruder film. Thanks.
i can't believe that last shot came from behind, never did believe it.
@@lisabradford8180 you are correct look at The Parkland Drs. original findings of the wounds...this was before the obfuscation started and they were threatened to shut up by Secret Service Enforcer Elmer Moore...listen the Navy Corpsman Jenkins testimony at Bethesda...of a entry wound to the temple and a baseball sized exit wound
In the right a occipital parietal of Jack's head...you can't see it on the "Z" film but the limo was turning to the left in a curve and dropping in elevation on Elm St. Do the straight line trajectories of the throat shot and head shot...same location...the shots were from across the Grassy Knoll in the Annex Parking lot....
See book by the late scientist Sherry Fiesters book..."Enemy of the Truth"
She does the science of it using math degrees of angle and elevation corresponding to those wounds...Good Luck in your research through the maze of Warren Commission Lies and questioned evidence...they did as good a job as they could do in adhering to US Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbachs marching orders to them before they began...find Oswald guilty...
"believe" has failed to trump facts & tangible evidence. OSWALD 2 FOR 3 @JFK
Watch it slowed down & it is clearly a shot from behind, Oswald did the deed & he did it alone, the rest is wishful thinking & pure fantasy.
@@lisabradford8180 Well try watching it slowed down, then try & deny it came from behind. Same old same old from the conspiracy yahoos.
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a reporter of the 1960s...he got the CIA talking points down pretty well...
What a crock... Cleaned up a crime scene....
So as the affable and impressive Mr Davis acknowledges, LBJ shoved through everything his cabinet could imagine the government should be doing. Quite an admission of unconstitutional behavior. And journalistic standards are different today, and the same applies to our leaders.
A bronze casket may way 260 lbs. not 600 lbs.
I have a family member who is a funeral director. He stated several times that bronze caskets are the heaviest and most expensive.
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Lone gunman comment...thank you. Any HONEST research will bring a healthy mind to the correct conclusion.
They are watched closely and this museum pushes ONE agenda only.....Big Daddy is.listening.
@@jenniferwise8515 that's not true.
Other speakers have said they believe it was a conspiracy.
@@formermpc10 the people that were readý to spill the beans ,alledly commited suiciide or mysteriously died.Everyone knows it was a conspiracy,you keep your mouth shut or you die.
@@formermpc10 @andymark is talking about us that try and fight against this phoney museum of money making lie...I am constantly being blocked by The Sixth Floor Museum and/ or TH-cam. I try to produce links or documents to show everyone that their conclusions are often wrong...but my comments are being carefully watch and censored...I don't even know if this will go through...but oh yes...we are all being watched and read...
@@formermpc10 They never produce any credible evidence for a conspiracy & no one ever will because there wasn't.
Stopped listening when he started defending the press. That says it all about this man.
will flush all toilets to honor ya BLOOEY BLOOEY BLOOEY OSWALD SOLO
No one shaves "two or three times a day" Sid not even Mr. Nixon. OK he may haved shaved twice a day. For what reason no one knows. OK five o'clock shadow.
LBJ stood straight up the whole way because he knew he wasnt the target, and if you look his swearing in on Aireforce one he winks on the guy on right when jacky on left
There are no videos of Johnson "winking" at anyone during the swearing in ceremony above Air Force 1. There is only 1 still photo of the swearing in. Johnson looks very sad, & he isn't winking at anyone.
@@karenmainor4275 wrong... Congressman Albert Thomas winks at LBJ...as Jackie is in horror in her blood covered dress...Lying Lyndon is smiling back at Thomas...lots of photos of this and video of the not needed swearing in on Air force One...it wasn't required for him to be sworn in legally and he knew it...but he waited for this day since he entered politics in the stuffed ballot box 19, Texas...as they said in Texas Lying Lyndon was as crooked as a hound dogs rear leg!
keep living the DEMOCRAT lie - - after 59 YEARS, ya cannot bring any evidence for LBJ .... all hail the great OSWAKLD, THE LONE GUN
@@jb-vb8un what does that comment even mean?
debunk all CT DEMOCRAT MINDREADING claims regarding LBJ
Bad aidio
I hated the Kennedys being called " Our Royal family". I liked JFK in some ways but no to royalty and idol worship.
@ Jennifer of coure his family is not Royal Family. None think like that .He is more than worship Idol. You cannot stop thinking the world admiring and worshipping JFK-RBK and his family that is in the world's deep heart forever. JFK and Premier Khruschev they Love Peace,not war-mongers/war hawks. They love the world and mankind and saved them from holocust/nuclear war.JFK ordered verbally and written total withdrawal of Americans from Vietnam and from entire Indochina leading to his assassination,a cause among others. lbj and nixon,watergate gentleman, escalated the war.
We will never forget JFK and Khruschev and their families. Farewell Sirs, JFK and Khruschev,RIP but the killers have been cursed by God gone to hell.
You had to be there back in the day...never before did this country have a president like him...young, wealthy, and Jackie that was eloquence and pretty....this country was sick of war...and the old conservative world war 2 sacred goats...
This man was trying to steer our country towards peace...
If ever this country showed appeal and respect to a Presidential family it was his
That's our Royalty or in other words...he was our pride!
Why do these old men continue to lie after 55 years?
To keep the myth alive and going strong
The real story is on America's Untold Stories ... What a load ....
Groubert is so full of crap no evidence for anything
I love the gossip on there. He wouldnt be so brave with a live person across from them, ie Ruth Paine. Still... it's great
Too political such as it is with current news people. Interesting but I could do without your opinions on other presidents. Tell the historical facts. He is too opinionated we just want the facts.
Nice interview until the Trump Bashing
Sid, hello North Korean / Trump summit, now they are going to meet again, does this register?
Yeah and look how that turned out. They are still making weapons. Does that register to you?!?
@@theendofanerror4173 where is yours??
@@janiscureton4076 Under audit. 🙄
Sounds like a trump hater. Like barak didn’t do unconstitutional crap
THATS YOUR UNEDUCATED GUESS ? OR EXCUSE !?!
Dolores Perez I’m educated enough to know progress when I see it. You might wanna look around..
@@austinbrown3721 yeah, yeah it's all a DECEPTION, where you been?
Ms. Perez, Austin Brown’s comment had nothing to do with an uneducated or educated GUESS. Listen to the interview and you hear Sid’s clear Democrat bias and clear remarks about our president today. If you study your political history you will find the last administration did exactly what they wanted to do, including an executive order that created DOCA. The past three years of the Trump administration have been wrapped up in the Democrat name calling and their unfounded accusations against the President...that revealed who was swimming around the swamp including Obama and Biden...per the documents that came to light last week.
@@Marlowe327 Impeached twice, lost three elections. Trump is winning alright!
You know this guy isn't or hasn't ever been president and following a president doesn't make him an expert of foreign matters maybe he should just stick to recalling old memories instead talking about stuff he knows NOTHING about! I couldn't care less about his opinions on matters of current day!
"guy hasnt been president" .... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
41:55 Trip was to "mend political fences." No, this is a fake cover story that has been widely peddled and widely believed. If LBJ, JFK, Yarborough, and Connally needed to get together to mend fences of Texas politics, three of them were already in Washington DC most of the time anyway. Connally could fly in any time, as he did to strenuously lobby JFK to come to Texas and Dallas in particular and the Trade Center in particular particular.
The purpose of the Texas/Dallas travels was to get JFK assassinated in an environment LBJ and his lap dog Connally could control. As eagerly aided by Texas oil, which hated JFK for his cutbacks on oil depletion allowances. And as eagerly aided by Mayor Cabell, whose CIA brother had been fired by JFK for his part in the Bay of Pigs. And as eagerly aided by winking Congressman Al Thomas, who blackmailed JFK to come "or else" Brooks would hold up funding for JFK's NASA pet project to fly an American to the moon.
The alleged fundraising by selling tickets to a barbecue at the LBJ Pedernales Ranch was so anemic that Yarborough was anxiously making pleading inquiries about it and how there were so few ticket sales he wasn't going to be getting any campaign funds out of the project. LBJ didn't care because LBJ knew JFK was destined to not make it to the barbecue anyway. LBJ also was lining up Yarborough to ride in the Connally seat. Had he succeeded and had Yarborough been shot dead, this would have helped out the U.S. Senate rival candidate for the 1964 race. A certain George Herbert Walker Bush, of Texas oil. Who would have profited along with Jack Crichton were JFK gone, facilitating Castro being gone, letting Texas oil back into Cuban oil drilling.