Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. October 1910: The bombed-out Los Angeles Times building. (Los Angeles Times) He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great ...

Clarence Darrow was a trial attorney made famous for his defense of a Tennessee educator accused of breaking a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. Bettmann / Corbis Clarence ...

In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he ...

Before O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century,” another courtroom clash riveted America and merited that title. In the sleepy town of Dayton, Tenn., on July 10, 1925, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was ...

Clarence Darrow (1853-1938) was one of the greatest litigators of his age, a modern Daniel Webster, for it was Webster who made speeches of reasoning, pathos and sarcasm that enforced the principles ...

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Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was a ...

Patrick Spradlin portrays defense attorney Clarence Darrow in the one-man play, Clarence Darrow. The play will tour Iowa in October. The performances, presented by the Iowa Labor History Society, aim ...

Iowa Labor History Society was formed almost a decade ago to preserve and promote the history of Iowa's workers, which in turn helped shape the history of the state. The ILHS is bringing the true ...

He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great Defender, the champion of free thought who skewered biblical literalism at the Scopes Monkey Trial and the master courtroom rhetorician whose three-day ...