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| | William Jennings Bryan - UMKC School of Law |
 | | Theodore Roosevelt said of William Jennings Bryan, “By George, he would make the greatest Baptist preacher on earth.” A Baptist preacher he might have been, too, were it not for his boyhood fear of water. |
 | | An impressed reporter for the New York Times, observing the scene, enthused, Bryan “is more than a great politician, more than a lawyer on trial, more even than one of our greatest orators, he is a symbol of their simple religious faith.” The next morning, he addressed members of the local school board. |
 | | Bryan yesterday, from the records of this court.” The evidence, Raulston concluded, could not aid in determining the guilt or innocence of John Scopes. |
| www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/bryanw.htm (3653 words) |
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