 On January 28, 1972, Garrett Brock Trapnell hijacked TWA Flight 2.One of his demands was Davis's release.In Renato Guttuso's painting "The Funerals of Togliatti" (1972), Davis is depicted, among other figures of communism, in the left framework, near the author's self-portrait, Elio Vittorini, and Jean-Paul Sartre.