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	John T. Scopes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900– October 21, 1970), a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee at the age of 24, was charged on May 25, 1925 with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
		Scopes was not allowed to take the stand at his trial for fear he would reveal his ignorance and turned down a $50,000 offer to lecture on evolution on the vaudeville stage because he did not know enough about the subject.
		Scopes' involvement in the so-called Monkey Trial came about after The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced that it would finance a test case challenging its constitutionality of the Butler Act if they could find a Tennessee teacher was put on trial for violating the statute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_T._Scopes (589 words)

	American Experience Monkey Trial People & Events
		John Scopes was playing tennis when a group of businessmen called him to the town gathering place, Robinson's drugstore.
		John Scopes was to have Clarence Darrow, America's top criminal lawyer, defend him.
		The judge imposed a fine of $100 and John Scopes spoke for the first time.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/p_scopes.html (565 words)

	John Scopes
		John Scopes, Paducah native and University of Kentucky graduate, taught evolution to his biology class in Dayton, Tennessee, going against a law prohibiting the teaching of evolution.
		The trial was soon dubbed the "Monkey Trial." Scopes was found guilty and fined $100, however, the Tenessee Supreme Court reversed the decision an a technicality.
		Scopes left teaching and entered the oil business as a geologist.
	www.geocities.com /jcramsey_2000/js.html (132 words)

	The Scopes Trial: Frequently Rebutted Assertions. By W. R. Elsberry.
		John T. Scopes agrees to become the accused in a test case.
		Scopes was indicted under the Butler Act and the case set for trial on July 10th.
		Scopes was convicted and fined under the Butler Act, but the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the law while overturning the conviction on a technicality.
	www.antievolution.org /topics/law/scopes/scopes.html (3409 words)

	Smithsonian Institution Archives
		Defense lawyers for Scopes (John R. Neal, Arthur Garfield Hays, and Dudley Field Malone) are visible seated to the extreme right.
		Scopes was tried and convicted for violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.
		The 24-year-old Scopes was in his first job after graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1924.
	www.siarchives.si.edu /research/scopes.html (855 words)

	PBS VIDEOdatabase of America's History and Culture -- Chapters
		The arrest of John Scopes for violating the anti-evolution law brought national attention to both the defendant and the little town of Dayton, TN.
		The defendant, John Scopes, was all but forgotten as the clash of titans Darrow and William Jennings Bryan continued.
		In 1925, a Tennessee, biology teacher named John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of state law.
	pbsvideodb.pbs.org /programs/all_chapters.asp?item_id=29999 (1160 words)

	Tennessee Vs. John Scopes:
		Tennessee vs. John Scopes: The monkey trial It was the year 1925 and in the town of Dayton, Tennessee a trial that would decide whether evolution could or could not be taught in schools was taking place.
		This trial was Tennessee vs. John Scopes and is commonly known as the monkey trial.
		Scopes was a math teacher and football coach who had filled in for the sick biology teacher for two weeks at the end of the school year.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/26/hmd422.shtml (1246 words)

	John T. Scopes Found Guilty of Teaching Science!
		It was on this date, July 21, 1925, that a court in the tiny mining town of Dayton, Tennessee, handed down a guilty verdict against 24-year-old high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the Butler Act (passed earlier that year*) — that is, for teaching the theory of evolution in a public school classroom.
		Judge John Raulston presided in a sweltering courthouse and eventually had to move the proceedings outdoors to accommodate both the heat and the crowds.
		In spite of Darrow's drubbing, Bryan won the case and Scopes was fined $100.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0721a-almanac.htm (749 words)

	NPR : Timeline: Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial
		Clarence Darrow was 68 when he agreed to act as John Scopes' defense attorney.
		Scopes returns to the town for the premiere and is given the key to the city.
		Scopes is recruited to write news stories on the trial for some of the delinquent journalists.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4723956 (2751 words)

	Inherently Wind: A Hollywood History of the 1925 Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
		John Scopes' guilt or innocence was not even a primary concern of any of the participants in the trial.
		Technically, the only point at issue in the trial was whether or not John Scopes actually taught the evolution of man from lower orders of animals, so naturally the lawyers for the prosecution did question the relevance of the testimony of expert witnesses.
		Scopes' fiance "Rachel Brown" is called as a witness and is badly mistreated by Bryan who forces her to testify against her own fiance by insisting that she repeat deeply personal conversations between her and Scopes which Bryan had pried out of her in "confidence" only the night before.
	www.gennet.org /facts/scopes.html (6144 words)

	JURIST – John Scopes (The "Monkey Trial")
		The defense's goal was not to win acquittal for John Scopes, but rather to obtain a declaration by a higher court--preferably the U.S. Supreme Court--that laws forbidding the teaching of evolution were unconstitutional.
		The conspirators summoned John Scopes, a twenty-four-year old general science teacher and part-time football coach, to the drugstore.
		Scopes replied that while filling in for the regular biology teacher during an illness, he had assigned readings on evolution from the book for review purposes.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /famoustrials/Scopes.php (2111 words)

	History of the John Scopes Monkey Trial
		John Scopes volunteered to allow himself to be arrested in order to test the law.
		The Defendant was John Thomas Scopes who is charged with teaching evolution, which is a violation of Tennessee law.
		At the time of the Scopes trial, evolutionist believed that the way plants and animals are distributed across the earth proves evolution.
	wawa.essortment.com /johnscopesmonk_rect.htm (1640 words)

	Scopes Monkey Trial
		When the young teacher John Scopes was charged in Dayton, Tennessee under the Butler Act for teaching "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible," the case became the trial of the century.
		Scopes was brought into the case by the ACLU.
		The Scopes Monkey Trial was just one example of the clash between the generations of the 1920's.
	www.angelfire.com /co/pscst/monkey.html (286 words)

	John Scopes
		John Scopes credits his English born father, Thomas Scopes, as being the major influence in his life.
		The entire prosecution case in the trial of John Scopes occupies less than two hours of a Wednesday afternoon session of court.
		Scopes later described the fateful meeting at Robinson’s that led to his agreeing to test the Butler Act as “just a drugstore conversation that got past control.” Many times over the coming months, he would regret having anything to do with the case.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/Sco_sco.htm (3110 words)

	Inherit/1925
		But as John Crowe Ransom notes, there were a series of tensions throughout the trial, including questions of collective vs. individual rights and academic vs. parental concerns, which have persisted in American culture since the birth of the nation (8).
		He did not, however, plan to call Scopes to the stand, for if he were to do so, it might surface that Scopes had, in fact, not even been in school on the day mentioned in the indictment.
		The Scopes trial came at a crossroads in history - as people were choosing to cling to the past or jump into the future.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG97/inherit/1925home.html (1598 words)

	CNN.com - 75 years after the Scopes trial pitted science against religion, the debate goes on - July 12, 2000
		John Scopes, a football coach and substitute biology teacher, agreed to be arrested and put on trial to challenge a new law against teaching evolution
		John Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego, California, says he and others at the institute are scientists who frame and study the question of human origins from a biblical perspective.
		Scopes was the football coach at Rhea Central High School who also taught math and general science, and sometimes substitute-taught biology, Larson said.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/LAW/07/13/scopes.monkey.trial (2405 words)

	The Constitution, Censorship, and the Schools: Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes
		John Thomas Scopes, the so-called “monkey trial” held in Dayton, Tennessee in July, 1925, in which a science teacher was arrested for teaching evolution in violation of the state laws at that time.
		Scopes admitted he was opposed to the Tennessee anti-evolution law because he did not think that the state should tell all the Tennessee schools what could and could not be taught, that was a matter for a local or county school board, not the state.
		If so, after an impartial examination of evidence (three of Scopes’ students had to be rounded up in order to give statements to the jury), it was found that the teacher broke the law, then it was their duty to return a report to the judge so stating.
	www.cis.yale.edu /ynhti/pubs/A5/herndon.html (9429 words)

	The Greatest Trials of All Time
		The science at the heart the Scopes trial eventually took root in public schools, but it was on Dayton's soil that perhaps the most notable battle this century between science and religion was fought.
		Judge John Raulston, who presided over the trial, carried a Bible with him into the courtroom, opened each day with a prayer, and only grudgingly removed a banner in the court reminding jurors to "Read Your Bible." Only one of twelve jurors was not a church member.
		When state legislator John Butler wrote the Butler Act, banning the teaching of evolution in public schools, the state's fundamentalists felt their interests were at last being legally protected.
	www.courttv.com /greatesttrials/scopes/versus.html (854 words)

	1920s Representative American
		John Scopes was a young science teacher and football coach at the high school in Dayton, Tennessee.
		John Scopes was a tool used to challenge the unjust Butler's Law in Tennessee and bring fame to the little-known Dayton.
		Using John Scopes, a teacher, as an example, Butler's Law against the teaching of evolution would be challenged in Tennessee.
	sun.menloschool.org /~nfortman/8th/decadesweb.2003/kiranm (351 words)

	Clarence Darrow and the Scopes Monkey Trial
		John T. Scopes, a well-respected teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested on May 5, 1925, for teaching the work of Charles Darwin to his high school students.
		Scopes wrote that “Barnum and Bailey would have been pressed hard to produce more acts and sideshows and freaks than Dayton had.” (Scopes 77) Darrow and Bryan had transformed a quiet, sleepy little town into a circus.
		The citizens of Dayton and the onlookers that were drawn from the surrounding areas immediately took the idea that Bryan was a holy crusader battling Satan, and capitalized on it in the form of signs, pamphlets, and souvenirs.
	www.georgetownwebdesign.com /ed/darrow.html (2109 words)

	The Truth About Inherit the Wind
		Scopes was surprised to hear how relatively knowledgeable the student witnesses were, and he speculated that they must have picked up what they knew somewhere else and come to associate it with his class.
		Scopes himself knew little beyond the rudiments, and the defense thought it best to keep him off the stand, where his lack of knowledge (not to mention his uncertainty as to whether he had taught the subject) might prove embarrassing.
		Scopes attended a dinner given by the Dayton Progressive Club in honor of Bryan's arrival, and Bryan, famous for remembering people, recognized Scopes as one of a gaggle of giggling graduates he had addressed at a high school commencement six years earlier.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9702/iannone.html (3554 words)

	TourSalem!! History Out the Wazoo...and Shopping Too!
		John Thomas Scopes, 24 years, indicted for teaching evolution in Dayton, Tenn., High School is present in New York securing counsel and advisers to face his trial, July 16th.
		The whole matter has assumed the portion of Dayton and her merchants endeavoring to secure a large amount of notoriety and publicity with an open question as whether Scopes is a party to the plot or not.
		They planned to ride high, wide and handsome in the way of prices, which Scopes says disgusted him and he told them frankly it was a poor sample of southern hospitality, and suggested that every visitor be given a square deal.
	www.gosites.org /toursalem/virtualtour/scopes.htm (261 words)

	The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes: The "Monkey Trial" and the Movie
		The Scopes Trial also produced what the New York Times called "the most amazing courtroom scene in Anglo-American history," the calling of prosecutor William Jennings Bryan to the stand by defense attorney Clarence Darrow for examination on the question whether every story in the Bible was literally true.
		Scopes returned for the first time in over 30 years and was presented with the key to the city of Dayton by the mayor who proclaimed it "Scopes Trial Day."
		But when they asked Scopes, he indicated that having a headline-maker like Darrow would be a good balance to the publicity-grabbing Bryan, who had already signed on for the prosecution.
	lifeloom.com /II2Shmurak.htm (2528 words)

	Inherit the Wind: Reaping the Whirwind - James Perloff - Koinonia House
		Scopes also wrote about his students, who were called as witnesses at the trial: "If the boys had got their review of evolution from me, I was unaware of it.
		Scopes was recruited by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to challenge Tennessee's Butler Act. He probably never even taught evolution or Darwin.
		The men approached Scopes and asked if he would agree to say he had violated the law and be served with a warrant.
	www.khouse.org /articles/2000/283 (1392 words)

	John T. Scopes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970), a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee at the age of 24, was charged on May 25, 1925 with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
		Scopes was not allowed to take the stand at his trial for fear he would reveal his ignorance and turned down a $50,000 offer to lecture on evolution on the vaudeville stage because he did not know enough about the subject.
		In the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial, he was defended by Clarence Darrow, Dudley Field Malone, and Arthur Garfield Hays, and prosecuted by Tom Stewart and William Jennings Bryan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_T_Scopes (1392 words)

	Scopes Trial Home Page - UMKC School of Law
		Scopes Trial Home Page - UMKC School of Law
		Journalists were looking for a showdown, and they found one in a Dayton, Tennessee courtroom in the summer of 1925....
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm (133 words)

	Blogerantz: Happy Birthday, John T. Scopes
		People like John Scopes knew that science could bring us closer to finding truth, especially about who we are and where we come from.
		This is John T. Scopes of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial.
		He was born on this date in 1900.
	blogerantz.blogspot.com /2005/08/happy-birthday-john-t-scopes.html (319 words)

	TomVanBurenscopespageresources
		In this section of The Scopes Monkey Trial site, "What Hunter's Biology Really Taught," there are many thought provoking paragraphs describing the inaccuracies of the evolutionary theory presented in Hunter's Biology text, the racist views of the evolution of different races, and Clarence Darrow's fatalistic view of man's position in the universe.
		The Scopes Monkey Trial site is an excellent source of information that points out the variety of misinformation on the trial.
		A most revealing tidbit on The Scopes Monkey Trial site is that Scopes confesses that he never taught evolution.
	coe.west.asu.edu /students/tvanburen/scopespres.htm (683 words)

	The Monkey Trial
		After his arrest, Scopes was put in jail where he was hit in the head by a bottle thrown through the window of his cell, burned in effigy, threatened with being lynched from a “sour apple tree,” and made to fear for his life.
		Although not actually guilty of the alleged crime, Scopes (who, unlike the regular biology teacher he substituted for, was single and adventuresome) cooperated in a clever and friendly plan to test the constitutionality of the Butler Act.
		a favorite of the ACLU and, prior to the Scopes case, he was considered by that organization to be a model statesman of the “progressive” sort.
	www.themonkeytrial.com (7291 words)

	Science on Trial: Tennessee vs John Thomas Scopes
		The trail of John Scopes in 1925 was the first American trial that was taped for national broadcast.
		Like many other trials, the Scopes trial was also of interest to European news agencies, and was covered in London and on the continent.
		To critically examine the scientific arguments presented in the textbook used by Scopes.
	web.usf.edu /~lc/MOOs/scopes (484 words)

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