In the early days of local television, McLennan County District Attorney Tom Moore Jr. and Bill Simpson, a young news editor at KWTX-TV in Waco, met to discuss televising a trial. They got their chance in December 1955, when murder defendant Harry L. Washburn’s trial was transferred from San Angelo. For the first time, an in-court camera would bring a live criminal trial into the living rooms of residents. The cameraman is standing on the upper balcony in the top left of this photograph.