Garber Davidson; Journalist, Publicist

Garber Davidson, 89, Los Angeles-based journalist who reported on the atomic testing in Nevada in the late 1950s. Davidson was a reporter for the Copley papers and then, for 25 years, Associated Press, retiring in 1965. In addition to the atomic tests, he covered the career of Richard M. Nixon leading to the presidency, and local courts and city government. In his retirement years, Davidson turned to public relations, working for Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Rockwell International, where he helped publicize the Apollo missions. He was educated at Long Beach City College and the University of Missouri and was a lifelong scholar of Mark Twain and P.G. Wodehouse. Davidson had just completed a manuscript about his great-grandfather’s experience as a foot soldier in the Civil War. On Tuesday in Los Angeles of respiratory failure.