The trial quickly became a media circus. John Scopes was to have Clarence Darrow, America's top criminal lawyer, defend him. The famous politician and anti-evolutionist, William Jennings Bryan ...

But one thing the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925 did not do was settle ... American Civil Liberties Union backing his defense. His lawyer was the legendary Clarence Darrow, who, besides being ...

He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great Defender, the champion of free thought who skewered biblical literalism at the Scopes Monkey Trial and the master courtroom rhetorician whose three ...

The millions of words written about the “Trial of the Century” (there have been several given that title) law reviews, documentaries, Broadway plays, and movies (“Inherit the Wind”) never seems to end ...

interrogates prosecution attorney William Jennings Bryan, seated at left in bow tie, during what came to be known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, in which Tennessee teacher John T. Scopes was charged ...