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TRIAL JUDGE
"I do not regret having permitted it [radio-tv coverage], and if it were requested again in the proper case I would again permit it."
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
"I think that the trial was conducted fairly, honestly and honorably and would not have been conducted any differently had there been no cameras in the courtroom."
DEFENSE ATTORNEY
"Not once at any one period or stage of the trial was the decorum of the court, was the dignity of the court, or was any procedure affected . . . as a result of . . . televising."
THESE SIX RECOGNIZE RADIO-TV RIGHT IN COURT
THERE can be no more eloquent testimony for radio-tv's right in the courtroom than the opinions expressed by six people — all vitally concerned with the John Gilbert Graham trial.
Trial Judge Joseph H. McDonald unhesitatingly declared the coverage in no way hampered the defendant's rights.
Prosecuting attorney Bert M. Keating likewise saw no disruption to the processes of justice.
Chief defense attorney John Gibbons went further to say that radio-tv's coverage was generally better than that of the press.
Jury foreman Ralph Bonar said radio-tv hadn't any effect on the trial participants, in fact it was forgotten by most.
Gloria Graham, widow of the defendant, felt that the cameras and microphones did not influence either the witnesses or the outcome of the trial.
State Supreme Court Justice Otto O. Moore, whose report favoring relaxation of Canon 35 permitted radio-tv coverage of the Graham trial, said that the unobstrusive conduct of these media justified his report's conclusion that cameras and microphones should be admitted to courtrooms.
JURY FOREMAN
". . . People that are going to be called for jury duty . . . have no way of knowing what it is. I think that the medium [radio-tv] is very, very good to educate prospective jurors in the future."
DEFENDANT'S WIDOW
Answering the question whether she thought that the presence of radio and television had anything to do with the outcome of the trial: "No, I don't think it did."
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
Radio and television coverage of trials "has and would tend to have over the years a very definite influence in the realm of deterring crime."
Broadcasting • Telecasting
May 13, 1957 • Page 137