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S8 Ep340: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Brenda Wineapple. Wineapple details the 1925 Scopes trial preparations, where the ACLU sought a defense attorney for John Scopes. Notorious lawyer Clarence Darrow volunteered his services pro bono, feeling called to battle a

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Brenda Wineapple. Wineapple details the 1925 Scopes trial preparations, where the ACLU sought a defense attorney for John Scopes. Notorious lawyer Clarence Darrow volunteered his services pro bono, feeling called to battle against the "bigotry and fanatics" of the Butler Act and to oppose prosecution leader William Jennings Bryan
1925 MAIN STREET, DAYTON TENN.

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with Indeed. This is John Batchel, a conversation with the author brenda winnapel her new

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book keeping the faith this is the scopes trial 1925 god democracy and the trial that riveted a nation

0:47.9

clarence darrow the defender of the weak and the unions and the aggrieved in 1925 from 1900 on.

0:56.6

He was extremely famous.

0:59.2

And he was up against a man who was even more famous.

1:02.4

William Jennings Bryan, three times candidate for the presidency, Secretary of State to Woodrow

1:07.3

Wilson, a man who could quote the Bible at any moment,

1:11.7

the trial in Dayton, Tennessee, 100 years ago.

1:16.6

Here, the author Brenda Wineapple describes the preparation,

1:21.8

who to defend John Scopes,

1:24.4

a young teacher in high school of the evolution theory that was banned by the Tennessee

1:31.4

legislature and Senate.

1:34.5

Here's Brenda to explain the caution they go about in choosing defendant and attorneys.

1:51.6

Much more of this tonight. He is indeed. He is indeed. And the discussion is who should they take on as attorneys? Of course, the ACLU is going to have their own attorney

1:58.8

defending scopes, and that will be a man named

2:03.0

Arthur Hayes. But there's also a man whom you mentioned, Clarence Darrow, who's a notorious and

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