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 1960 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 in the front lines as 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. He also covered some of the biggest trials including that of Sirhan Sirhan.

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

Ivor Davis was a foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express and the Times of London. He 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. Davis is the author of the award winning “The Beatles and Me on Tour.” Davis also coauthored “Five to Die” the first book ever published about the murder of Sharon Tate. His most recent book is, “Manson Exposed: A Reporter’s 50-year Journey into Madness and Murder” the real inside story of the crimes that shook the world

He currently lives in Southern California and is working on three new books: one about his adventures in Hollywood-- the other a true crime book about a friend who turned out to be a mass murderer and a third an updated 60th anniversary version of his award winning “Beatles and Me on Tour.”