WGN Radio

On 100th anniversary of Scopes Monkey Trial, role of WGN Radio echoes with impact

In 1925, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee, where the law required the teaching of divine creation and prohibited ...
WGN Radio

Scopes Trial – 100 years later

100 years ago yesterday, the Scopes Monkey Trial got underway. WGN Radio brought it to the nation. This article talks about all that and quotes John Williams in a few places, including the concluding ...
Iowa Public Radio

100 years after evolution went on trial, the Scopes case still reverberates

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history. A local substitute teacher, John Scopes, was charged with ...
WBUR

Reflecting on the Scopes trial, 100 years later

The cover of "The Hundred Years' Trial" and author Harold Gouzoules (top) and Alexander Gouzoules (bottom). (Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press, Emory University and Samantha Xia) One hundred ...
Iowa Public Radio

Reflecting on the Scopes trial, 100 years later

One hundred years ago today — July 21, 1925 — the Scopes trial wrapped up in Dayton, Tennessee. Teacher John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating a Tennessee law that banned the teaching ...