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Remembering the Scopes Trial John T. What Killed Charles Darwin? Mencken of the Baltimore Sun Newspaper , two hundred other reporters, and a host of curiosity seekers and publicity hounds flocked to Dayton for the courtroom clash.
The big city newspapers of the North could hardly wait for his dispatches. Rhea County Courthouse. Henry Louis Mencken The trial featured a number of strategic twists and turns.
Presiding Judge John T. Raulston quoted Genesis and quarreled with Darrow on several occasions. He insisted that the jury judge the case, not on the issues regarding evolution vs. Scopes never actually appeared for questioning, since he was not even sure he had taught the chapter in question and the defense did not want him grilled on it. The defense argued that the Bible dealt with matters of religion and science with matters of facts and the two should not be mixed. More than six hundred spectators shoehorned themselves into the courtroom.
The presiding judge, John T. Raulston, had proposed holding the trial outdoors in a tent that would accommodate twenty thousand. Reporters assembled from as far away as London and Hong Kong. Mencken chronicled the trial for the Baltimore Sun. Years later, the U. Supreme Court struck down a similar Arkansas law in Epperson v. Arkansas , finding that it violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
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