Just outside San Bernardino on Route 66 lies the site of the 1954 accident that left Sammy Davis Jr. permanently injured. This visit retraces the location tied to a defining event in his life, one ...

In 1954, a crash on Route 66 changed Sammy Davis Jr.’s life forever. We visited the site where the music icon lost his left eye—and where Hollywood history took a dramatic turn.

Back in the early ’60s, Sammy Davis Jr.’s entourage took up most of the first-class cabin on TWA flights from New York to Los Angeles. As an 18-year-old flight attendant, Margaret Bush-Ware ...