July 26, 1925, a worldwide news crush in
Dayton
,Tennessee
during what is dubbed “The Monkey Trial“. Did we descend from primates, as theorized by Charles Darwin or were we
created as written in Genesis, and decreed by a new
Tennessee
law forbidding any teaching of evolution in public schools. Biology teacher John Thomas Scopes stands accused by a fundamentalist
team headed up by orator William Jennings Bryant -- whose grandstanding makes him fall victim to a devastating cross-examination by ACL ...