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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1925, journalists, lawyers, and gawkers alike descended upon Dayton ... American journalist H. L. Mencken dubbed it the “Monkey Trial.” The facts are these: A high school science ...

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 ...

and formerly worked as a defense attorney and adjunct law professor. His new book, "The Trial of the Century," about the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" is available in bookstores nationwide or can ...

The Scopes "Monkey" Trial riveted nations across the world in 1925. In the case, Tennessee high school teacher John T. Scopes was accused of teaching ...

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 ...