He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great Defender, the champion of free thought who skewered biblical literalism at the Scopes Monkey Trial and the master courtroom rhetorician whose three ...
In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago ...
The trial attracted legendary attorneys William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. Bryan was a prosecutor who opposed teaching evolution because of its association with eugenics, according to the ...