Photographs from the old theocracy for the new: The Scopes trial.

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Now that the religious fight against science in the US has had a second coming (unlike Jesus), I thought it might be germaine to link to this New York Times on the Scopes trial.

"80 Years Ago, They Inherited the Wind


By SAM ROBERTS
Published: July 26, 2005
William Jennings Bryan died 80 years ago today as he napped in a Tennessee hotel room, just before he was finally to deliver his closing argument in the Scopes case. The trial had actually ended a few days before, after the judge abruptly cut short the testimony, but Bryan, after subjecting himself to a withering interrogation by Clarence Darrow, the nation's leading defense lawyer, was intent on getting the last word.

Last week, the Smithsonian Institution archives announced that Marcel C. LaFollette, a historian, had found more than 60 unpublished photographs taken during the trial, which, as H. L. Mencken wrote, transformed Dayton, Tenn., from an "obscure and happy" town into a 'universal joke.'..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/science/26scop.html?

http://siarchives.si.edu/research/scopes.html



William Jennings Bryan (seated at left) being interrogated by Clarence Seward Darrow, during the trial of State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes, July 20, 1925