John Scopes : the Famous trials in American history. John Scopes : the An entertaining account of the s trial of John Scopes, a high school biology teacher charged with illegally teaching the theory of evolution at a school in Tennessee. John Scopes : the may contain files that may need programs or plugins like Acrobat files, Zip files or Powerpoint Presentation files.
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Scopes' trial conviction was overturned on appeal and the state law voided in Illustrated with photographs from the trial. Darrow and Raulston shook hands. After expressing concern that the courtroom floor might collapse from the weight of the many spectators, Raulston transferred the proceedings to the lawn outside the courthouse.
There, facing the jury, hung a sign--attached to the courthouse wall-- reading, "Read Your Bible. Raulston ordered the sign removed. Before a crowd that had swelled to about 5,, the defense read into the record, for purpose of appellate review, excerpts from the prepared statements of eight scientists and four experts on religion who had been prepared to testify. The statements of the experts were widely reported by the press, helping Darrow succeed in his efforts to turn the trial into a national biology lesson.
Dayton street scene, On the seventh day of trial, Raulston asked the defense if it had any more evidence. Bryan assented, stipulating only that he should have a chance to interrogate the defense lawyers. Bryan, dismissing the concerns of his prosecution colleagues, took a seat on the witness stand, and began fanning himself.
Darrow began his interrogation of Bryan with a quiet question: "You have given considerable study to the Bible, haven't you, Mr. I have studied the Bible for about fifty years. Bryan was asked about a whale swallowing Jonah, Joshua making the sun stand still, Noah and the great flood, the temptation of Adam in the garden of Eden, and the creation according to Genesis. After initially contending that "everything in the Bible should be accepted as it is given there," Bryan finally conceded that the words of the Bible should not always be taken literally.
In response to Darrow's relentless questions as to whether the six days of creation, as described in Genesis, were twenty-four hour days, Bryan said "My impression is that they were periods. Bryan, who began his testimony calmly, stumbled badly under Darrow's persistent prodding. At one point the exasperated Bryan said, "I do not think about things I don't think about.
Bryan accused Darrow of attempting to "slur at the Bible. The next day, Raulston ruled that Bryan could not return to the stand and that his testimony the previous day should be stricken from evidence. The confrontation between Bryan and Darrow was reported by the press as a defeat for Bryan. According to one historian, "As a man and as a legend, Bryan was destroyed by his testimony that day.
Alan Dershowitz, for example, contended that the celebrated defense attorney "comes off as something of an anti-religious cynic. The trial was nearly over. Darrow asked the jury to return a verdict of guilty in order that the case might be appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Under Tennessee law, Bryan was thereby denied the opportunity to deliver a closing speech he had labored over for weeks. Six days after the trial, William Jennings Bryan was still in Dayton. After eating an enormous dinner, he lay down to take a nap and died in his sleep. Clarence Darrow was hiking in the Smoky Mountains when word of Bryan's death reached him. When reporters suggested to him that Bryan died of a broken heart, Darrow said "Broken heart nothing; he died of a busted belly.
A year later, the Tennessee Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Dayton court on a technicality--not the constitutional grounds as Darrow had hoped. According to the court, the fine should have been set by the jury, not Raulston. The Scopes Monkey Trial has since been fictionalized in a play, a film, and three television films, all called Inherit the Wind. Oakes Elizabeth H. Author : Elizabeth H.
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