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	American Experience \| Monkey Trial \| Teacher's Guide
		Monkey Trial offers insights into American history topics including regional differences, community standards in developing teaching curricula, the separation of church and state, freedom of speech, the judicial system, the media's impact on court cases, the reasons for individual or regional economic success, great speeches and the art of oration.
		They might discuss their respective strategies in the trial, their views regarding the trial's outcome, and each man's expectation of how the issue of teaching evolution would be handled around the country after 1925.
		Examples of trials that have gained enormous public interest include the Lindbergh kidnapping of the 1930s, the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial of the 1940s, the Rosenberg spy case of the 1950s, and the Rodney King beating and O. Simpson murder trial, both of the 1990s.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/tguide/index.html (994 words)

	Scopes trial - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Scopes trial Tennessee legal case involving the teaching of evolution in public schools.
		MONKEY BUSINESS : What really happened in Tennessee.(the so-called 'Monkey Trial,' that took place in Dayton, Tennessee, was a 'set-up' trial, initiated by the American Civil Liberties Union to test the Tennessee law that prohibited the teaching of evolution)
		1925: the 'monkey trial': John Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee law by teaching evolution in a public school.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Scopestr.html (728 words)

	American Experience \| Monkey Trial \| People & Events
		By the 1920s Darrow was back on top as the most famous trial attorney in America, a persuasive speaker who earned up to a quarter million dollars a case.
		He believed the Scopes trial would be the perfect platform for that debate.
		On the seventh day of the trial, on a platform outside the Dayton, Tennesseee courthouse, he called William Jennings Bryan to the stand as an expert on the Bible.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/p_darrow.html (666 words)

	American America History - The Scopes Monkey Trial
		With the clear understanding of why mankind is self conscious, commercialism and consumerism start booming like never before!” (Gerstein 14) the monkey trial opened people’s eyes, as well as their pocketbooks; consumerism flourished more so now because people could use reasoning to justify the spending that they did.
		Love and happiness have become obsolete and consumer status has taken over.” (Tompkins 14) this was one of the effects that the infamous trial would have on the everyday society of the twenties, and an effect that would carry on throughout the rest of the century, even into our lives in the new millennium.
		After the trial, he turned down a position in the schools, realizing that the public was so enthralled with his life that they would pay more for his story than a teaching job could ever make him.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=21918 (1074 words)

	University of Florida Performing Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial tour marks the 80th anniversary of the court case upon which it is based.
		The trial was the first to be broadcast by radio in America.
		Fittingly, The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial will be performed as a radio play by many of America's leading actors, including Edward Asner (reprising the role he originated in 1992 of William Jennings Bryan), James Cromwell and Sharon Gless.
	www.performingarts.ufl.edu /perf.la_theatre_works_monkey_trial.asp (604 words)

	North Texas Skeptics Web Log » The Great Monky Trial
		An icon for the common people, he was “the great commoner.” Though his “cross of gold” speech at the 1896 Democratic Party convention still rings as one of the great American oratorical triumphs, his intellect never rose above the power of his lungs.
		The great exponent of fundamentalism was exposed as an intellectual cripple, and fundamentalists caught the spatter face on.
		While the great American battle in this ideological conflict caused the dignity of the law to be a little bent, it is to the nation’s credit that the action took place on a plane of high comedy and added to the gaiety of nations.
	ntskeptics.org /blog/2006/09/12/the-great-monky-trial (1463 words)

	Scopes and More
		They sent a statement to all Tennessee newspapers offering to pay for all the financial expenses if a teacher was willing to become a defendant in a trial to test the constitutionality of the Butler Act (The Great Monkey Trial: Science vs. Fundamentalism in America, 1990).
		Though the actual legal proceedings of the case were to determine if John Scopes had broken the law, the true reason for its popularity was the battle between science and religion.
		Though the trial had been lost, it was initially seen as a great victory for evolutionists.
	home.earthlink.net /~gmarrujo/history_day_project_004.htm (703 words)

	LEGAL NEWS - Legal Headline from the wires - full text.
		A play about the first great courtroom clash over the teaching of evolution will detour to York County, scene of the latest skirmish in the ongoing culture war over the origin of humans.
		"The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial," a docudrama based on transcripts from the 1925 Scopes trial, is on a 23-city tour with a rotating cast of TV and movie stars that currently features Ed Asner ("Lou Grant"), James Cromwell ("Babe," "LA Confidential") and Sharon Gless ("Cagney and Lacey").
		"Monkey Trial," adapted by Peter Goodchild, uses actual transcripts from the Scopes trial.
	www.romingerlegal.com /newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo_[fkstuxqRTliy30qbfel]! (745 words)

	A 'Monkey Trial' Still Being Aped
		And although the work might wait until its final words to draw the direct connection between the current church-state debate and its subject, the 1925 Scopes trial, the message behind the production is never in doubt.
		Produced by L.A. Theatre Works, a group dedicated to the audio preservation of dramatic literature, "Tennessee Monkey Trial" is nearing the end of its 24-city tour -- which included York, Pa., close to what had become the hotbed of the intelligent-design debate: the Dover Area School District.
		The ideas argued during the 1925 trial -- with a few one-liners apparently inserted by Goodchild -- are little different from the debate today.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/02/AR2006020202649_pf.html (463 words)

	Inherently Wind: A Hollywood History of the 1925 Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
		Throughout the trial the definition of the term evolution was so hopelessly muddled by the defense and its’ witnesses that it seems unlikely that any of the jurors could have known exactly what evolution is and is not.
		The whole purpose for bringing this case to trial was to: 1) declare the Butler act unconstitutional, 2) expose “fundamentalist” Christian views on the subject of origins to public ridicule in the press, and 3) focus the attention of the world on evolution (de Camp, page 492).
		Bryan had put a great deal of effort into his closing statement and this maneuver by Darrow eliminated his opportunity to give what was a rather well supported scientific and religious argument against the theory of evolution.
	www.scopestrial.org /scopes.htm (6299 words)

	An introduction to the John Scopes (Monkey) Trial
		The meaning of the trial emerged through its interpretation as a conflict of social and intellectual values.
		Listening to Rappalyea, the others--including School Superintendent Walter White--became convinced that publicity generated by a controversial trial might help their town, whose population had fallen from 3,000 in the 1890's to 1,800 in 1925.
		The Scopes trial by no means ended the debate over the teaching of evolution, but it did represent a significant setback for the anti-evolution forces.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/evolut.htm (2104 words)

	Vanderbilt University Daily Register
		“The trial of the century” took place 150 miles from Nashville in Dayton, Tenn., and 80 years later it is still the subject of intense debate as school systems across the country argue what can be taught about the origins of life.
		Great Performances will bring the national tour of this play by Peter Goodchild to Nashville with a professional troupe featuring Ed Asner, John de Lancie and Alley Mills.
		Goodchild’s docudrama is adapted from the actual transcripts of the trial that transfixed the nation in 1925.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /register/articles?id=22349 (764 words)

	The Eureka Reporter - Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She was referring to L.A. Theatre Works’ production of “The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial,” which will begin its national tour with performances in Humboldt State University’s Van Duzer Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 11 and Wednesday, Oct. 12.
		The play was written by Peter Goodchild and with the exception of added narration, it is drawn from the transcripts of the 1925 trial that pitted a religion (Christianity) against science and the battle’s backdrop, the Tennessee public school system.
		The Scopes “monkey trial” is timely today, just as the state of Kansas’ school board prepares to vote on new science standards that challenge evolution with arguments made by advocates of creationism, which is now commonly labeled as “intelligent design,” Loewenberg said.
	www.eurekareporter.com /ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=4603 (1183 words)

	Milford Monkey Trial
		Some, of course, think the statue is a commemoration of the great battle over the teaching of evolution in Milford Schools in 1913.
		The subsequent Winter trial was dubbed "The Milford Monkey Trial," possibly as a comment about the courtroom antics of Mr.
		His casual phone comment that "It's colder'n a big brass monkey" was unfortunately heard as "Fitz, order in a big brass monkey." The result sits on Route 131.
	4dw.net /milford63/MilfordMonkeyTrial.html (693 words)

	North Coast Journal - October 6, 2005: THEATER ROUND UP - Of Monkeys and Men
		The preceding is an excerpt from the opening arguments in a court trial regarding the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.
		Scopes, the 1925 court case called "the trial of the century," and "The Great Monkey Trial." You would be wrong.
		As he did research and read the Scopes trial transcripts, he came to realize that the story told in the movie was, "a simplification and, really, a distortion" of a much more nuanced story.
	www.northcoastjournal.com /100605/theater1006.html (779 words)

	DARWIN VS. CREATIONISM--"THE GREAT MONKEY TRIAL"
		Weeks before the trial was scheduled to begin, the town was inundated with people from all over the country.
		The Scopes trial began on July 10, 1925 at the Rhea County Courthouse, a large brick building with a belfrey.
		The trial was a "significant setback to anti-evolution forces..., (and) creationists’ reputations suffered enormously..." Within a year, the Tennessee Supreme Court did reverse the jury’s decision–but not on constitutional grounds as Darrow had hoped.
	www.workersforjesus.com /scopes.htm (2164 words)

	The Monkey Trial
		The trial could not properly be called a witch hunt, one trial historian notes, because “the accused [Scopes] and his defenders—the ‘witches’—were actually the hunters, stalking the law with the intent of overturning it or at least making it unenforceable.” de Sprague,
		But these were the people whose children filled the schools, who are responsible as parents for their children's educations, and who paid the vast majority of the taxes to support the system.
		In re-reading the original trial transcript, one strongly suspects Darrow’s de facto “closing argument” was, by design, delivered at the end of the second day of the trial, p.74 ff.
	www.themonkeytrial.com (7208 words)

	Lord's Stronghold -- Monday, Jun. 25, 1934 -- Page 2 -- TIME
		On the hill where the Great Commoner had said he wanted a boys' preparatory school they would build not a school but a great University, to nurture true believers and make Dayton the Lord's one stronghold in the land.
		A year later, on Nov. 6, 1926, Tennessee's Governor Austin Peay and a great crowd of the faithful mounted the hill to shovel the first dirt and lay the cornerstone of Bryan Memorial University.
		The ceremony was performed on Bryan Hill under great oaks and a clear blue sky.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,754272-2,00.html (768 words)

	Scopes radio play mirrors drama in court - Columbia Missourian
		The trial, which was the first to be broadcast on radio, spotlighted the age-old conflict between science and religion.
		Parents in Dover, Pa., are in the middle of a trial over a school district policy requiring the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative theory to evolution.
		Loewenberg said the issues debated in the Scopes trial are especially relevant today because of the growing influence of the evangelical and conservative Christian movements in American political life.
	columbiamissourian.com /news/print.php?ID=16780 (479 words)

	No monkeying around in 'Trial' run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The proceeding was known as the Scopes trial because of high school teacher John Scopes, who agreed to be prosecuted to test the law's constitutionality.
		The survey indicated that the recording of the original radio play was the most useful of the materials the troupe provided to schools.
		Chimpanzee movie performer Joe Mendi held court outside the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tenn. The trial got its name from high school teacher John Scopes, who agreed to be prosecuted to test the constitutionality of the Butler Act.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/arts/articles/1110monkey10.html (495 words)

	The Scopes Trial
		The case was to become a crusade---for Bryan, against atheism and agnosticism; for Darrow, against religious fanaticism.
		The trial began on July 10, 1925, an incredibly hot day, in the courtroom of the Eighteenth Circuit Court, Judge John T. Raulston presiding.
		Toward the end of the trial, after Bryan had suggested himself as an expert witness, Judge Raulston allowed Darrow to cross-examine Bryan on Bryan's qualifications.
	www.mtsu.edu /~socwork/frost/god/scopestrial1.htm (1006 words)

	Clarence Darrow and the Scopes Monkey Trial
		The Scopes-Monkey Trial was an exercise in futility of a brilliant Clarence Darrow.
		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.
		The outcome of the trial was of no bearing compared to the reverberations that Darrow’s examination of Bryan caused: Fundamentalists had largely lost faith in their leader, and started questioning their absolute faith and their literal translation of the Bible.
	www.georgetownwebdesign.com /ed/darrow.html (2109 words)

	Newswise
		Theatergoers will have the opportunity to experience it for themselves when Great Performances at Vanderbilt presents The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial on Oct. 19 and 20.
		The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial will follow the panel discussion on Oct. 19 and will be presented again the following night at the Curb Center.
		In addition to Vanderbilt, co-sponsors for The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial and the Nashville residency activities include the Tennessee Arts Commission, the ACLU, Nashville Public Radio, the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture at Vanderbilt and the Vanderbilt Law School.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view/515140 (667 words)

	No. 824: Scopes Trial
		So a few Dayton boosters asked the new PE instructor, John Scopes, to meet with them in Robinson's drugstore.
		Then they could have the big trial in Dayton.
		Oddly enough, the actual trial was pretty dull.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi824.htm (462 words)

	Walton Arts Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The script, written by Peter Goodchild, is based upon the original transcripts from the trial.
		The oral interplay of the trial illuminates the debate over freedom of inquiry and the separation of church and state in a democratic society.
		The media partner for The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial is KUAF 91.3 FM/National Public Radio and this presentation is supported by Mid-America Arts Alliance with generous underwriting by the National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.waltonartscenter.org /pressroom.story.php?nid=53 (947 words)

	Vanderbilt News Service
		Experts discuss the Scopes monkey trial and the continuing controversy surrounding the teaching of evolutionExperts discuss the Scopes monkey trial and the continuing controversy surrounding the teaching of evolution
		Legal, political, historical and religious experts gathered to discuss the continuing debate surrounding the Scopes monkey trial in a forum preceding the performance of the Great Tennessee Monkey Trial Oct. 19.
		The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, drawn from the actual transcripts of the 1925 Dayton, Tenn., trial of a public school teacher accused of teaching evolution, was performed as part of the Great Performances at Vanderbilt.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /news/podcast_feed?id=24110 (322 words)

	Monkeying with History: A Bibliography of the Scopes Trial, Participants, and Related Texts
		Monkeying with History: A Bibliography of the Scopes Trial, Participants, and Related Texts
		In the Hands of God: a Historical Novel Based on the World-Famous “Monkey Trial” at Dayton, Tennessee in 1925.
		The Scopes Monkey Trial : a Headline Court Case.
	www.scopestrial.org /bibliog.htm (899 words)

	Inherently Wind: A Hollywood History of the 1925 Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
		No such announcement was ever made during the trial but Darrow and the other defense lawyers repeatedly objected to the opening of each session of the court with prayer as was customary in Tennessee and still is in our own U.S. Supreme Court.
		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.
		As the trial grinds to an end, Darrow fights valiantly to establish the innocence of his client John Scopes.
	www.gennet.org /facts/scopes.html (6144 words)

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