Anyone have any interesting facts on The Scopes Monkey Trial?

They used Listerine.

Argue against the scientific validity of evolution. That ought to get your professor's attention.

Wasn't one of the lawyers trying to use the publicity of the case to get elected to congress? Also, what kind of sadist professor demands that your 200 word essay be 5 pages long?

H L Menken covered the trial for the Baltimore Sun and wrote 3 essays related to it. One was on the trial itself and another was on William Jennings Bryan. The third was on a religious service in the Tenn. backwoods that's hilarious and probably did a lot to form the opinions of urban America about the rural US. Look them up.

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Also, the Baltimore Sun paid Scopes $100 fine, a considerable sum in those days.