Author Hank Schoepp recalls the day he was assigned cameraman to shoot.
"On December 7, 1993, thirty-nine year-old Richard Allen Davis, who confessed to the abduction and murder of twelve year-old Polly Klass, was formally arraigned in the Sonoma County seat of Santa Rosa, California. Due to the high profile nature of the case, only one camera was allowed inside the courtroom," he said. "As the pool cameraman, I was assigned to capture through my lens the likeness of the defendant. And to this day, it's the one that lingers on."
Shoot First: Code of the News Cameraman book excerpt:
His face was full, ruddy, time-worn, or worn perhaps from bearing witness first-hand to pain and suffering he had caused. His beard, thick moustache and hair on his head was long, wavy and gray, and his eyes, though partially shielded behind horn-rimmed glasses, seemed no less cold or distant, looking nowhere and at nothing, if not inward to where he had been, at what he had done there and to whom, and without remorse. (Chapter 15: 207)
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