Larry Davis as a Mizzou student
Larry Davis photographed as a Mizzou student in 1955.
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“When I sat on the federal bench in St. Louis, I would see these lawyers with $500 suits and diamonds and all that stuff,” Larry Davis. “They spoke so eloquently. And I would just sit there and say, ‘How in the hell did a barefoot kid from the Ozarks with two pairs of shoes and a pair of overalls get from there to here. It had to be God.’ ”
