SYMHC Classics: The Scopes Trial

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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🗓️ 18 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This 2017 episode covered the Scopes Trial, aka the Monkey Trial, that played out in Dayton, Tennessee in the summer of 1925. It all stemmed from a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution.

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0:30.7	Happy Saturday, everybody.
0:34.6	We are coming up on the 95th anniversary of the verdict in State of Tennessee
0:40.5	versus John Thomas Scopes, also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial.
0:44.9	So that seemed like a good time to share our previous episode on the trial,
0:48.6	which originally came out on May 24th, 2017.
0:52.1	One correction that we got after this episode originally aired
0:55.3	is that the drugstore owner and school board president who played a big role in all of this
1:00.3	was Frank E. Robinson.
1:02.5	We incorrectly said his name was Fred.
1:04.5	That is an error that appeared in one of the books Tracy used for research
1:07.9	at where Larson's book Summer of the Gods.
1:10.3	And it's been re-produced as well in a lot of other places.
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