In Search of History. The Scopes Monkey Trial
Description
In 1925, the fledgling American Civil Liberties Union wanted to challenge the constitutionality of the Butler Law, a ruling forbidding the teaching of evolutionary theory in public schools. For its test case, it selected the trial of John Scopes, who'd briefly taught Darwinism as a substitute biology teacher. But when celebrated lawyers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow arrived to argue the case, the quiet procedural matter exploded into a media carnival. This program captures the historic courtroom drama that drew reporters from around the world to the tiny Bible-belt town of Dayton, Tennessee.
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48 min
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Date of Publication
[2010], c1998
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Films on Demand
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