Brenda Wineapple: When Evolution Was on Trial

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

28-01-2025 • 37 mins

In 1925, a trial in a small town in Tennessee riveted the nation. In the dock was a young man named John Scopes, charged with violating a state law outlawing the teaching of evolution. The trial exposed fault lines in society that are opening again today, a century later.

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