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In l969 he co-wrote “Five to Die” the first book ever published about the Sharon Tate murders. Then he spent a year covering the wild and wacky trial. On the political front he covered Robert Kennedy’s l968 presidential bid and was in the Ambassador Hotel the night Kennedy was assassinated. He was a co-author of the 1969 political book “Divided They Stand.” As a foreign correspondent for the Express, and then the Times of London he covered the trial of Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan, and other major trials involving Angela Davis, acquitted of murder in l972 and Daniel Ellsberg accused of leaking the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. Over some 20 years he traveled throughout the western hemisphere covering riots, floods, earthquakes and political stories. He wrote a weekly showbusiness column for the New York Times Syndicate for over 15 years, interviewing everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Tom Cruise, from Snoop Dogg to Uma Thurman to Paul Newman. He was editor at Large for Los Angeles Magazine for almost 20 years where he wrote over 100 major magazine stories. They ranged from investigative reports on a wide variety of topics. The hunt for flamboyant murderers, the inside story of Hollywood’s larger than life plastic surgeons who worked on Priscilla Presley’s face, Michael Jackson’s nose and Pamela Anderson’s breasts. He interviewed Art Janov—the man who was once John Lennon’s shrink. As a broadcaster he won top California radio awards for his Manson Family coverage for KFWB and has reported on the last four World Soccer Cups for Los Angeles’ KNX radio. The Southern California based writer’s work has appeared in major magazines and newspapers in over 60 countries. "Before Ed Sanders detailed the life and times of The Family and Vincent Bugliosi joined Curt Gentry in spinning their Helter Skelter yarn, an intrepid upstart from the U.K. named Ivor Davis wore out a pair of shoes walking the streets, beach colonies and canyon cul-de-sacs of L.A. in search of the truth about the notorious Tate-LaBianca killings in the summer of '69. The result was Five to Die -- a fast, first book on the psychotic tribe Charles Manson assembled in his ill-fated messianic mission to trigger a race war and make himself Master of the Universe. Any serious student of the worst serial slaughter in Southern California history owes it to him or herself to read Davis's harrowing account." |
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