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S8 Ep340: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Brenda Wineapple. Wineapple describes William Jennings Bryan arriving in Dayton, Tennessee, like a movie star. Wearing a pith helmet against the heat, the former Secretary of State and three-time presidential candidate viewe

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

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PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Brenda Wineapple. Wineapple describes William Jennings Bryan arriving in Dayton, Tennessee, like a movie star. Wearing a pith helmet against the heat, the former Secretary of State and three-time presidential candidate viewed himself as the "Great Commoner" and a man of the people, there to save the world from atheism.
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book keeping the faith god democracy and the trial that riveted a nation the scopes monkey

0:46.7

trial in nineteen twenty five date in tennessee here brenda gives us a very quick overview of

0:53.1

william jennings bryan in nineteen twenty25 as he stepped off the Palmetto special arriving in Dayton on July 7th.

1:00.6

The trial will begin on the 10th of July.

1:04.7

And Brian stepped off the train with a photograph that's in Brenda's book, wearing a bright white pith helmet for the

1:13.6

sun.

1:14.0

He'd been in Florida.

1:15.6

In any event, as she identifies him correctly as something of a movie star.

1:20.2

William Jennings Byron, three times candidate for the presidency for the Democratic Party,

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Secretary of State for Woodrow Wilson, as famous a person as you could be

1:29.5

on planet Earth in 1925. The Scopes Monkey Trial, much more of this later in the weeks.

1:37.0

And he thinks of himself as a leader in the Democratic Party. He thinks of himself as

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great commoner as one of his nicknames. He thinks of himself as great commoner as one of his nicknames.

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He thinks of himself as a man of the people. And he thinks of himself as, in a way, a movie star

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with the Pesthalmet, which, by the way, is, you know, presumably blocks the sun, keeps him cool, but, you know, I mean, he's, he's there with a pith helmet and he is waving a big fan in the shape of a palm leaf because it's so hot. This is July in Tennessee, and it happens to be a heat wave, and nobody has any air conditioning. And he is

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