The Real Scopes Trial, and My Free Book Exposing It
The Scopes "Monkey Trial" of July, 1925, was promoted at the time as "the trial of the century." Amazingly, this turned out to be true.
In the tiny town of Dayton, Tennessee, the nation's most controversial lawyer and the nation's most controversial politician met in the courthouse to settle a crucial legal issue. The textbooks have covered up this issue ever since. The trial did not settle this issue, but it drove American fundamentalism underground in American politics for the next 50 years.
There was another issue -- more social than legal. It. too, was settled in that courthouse for the next 14 years.
Before we get to these, let's consider a few of the famous facts of the trial . . . and not one of them is true.
John T. Scopes was a science teacher who taught evolution.The ministers of the town had him arrested.
The ACLU did its best to get him acquitted, but failed.
The whole town was committed to biblical creationism.
There was great friction between townspeople and reporters.
The main issue of the trial was Constitutional freedom of speech.
William Jennings Bryan wanted Scopes fined severely as a lesson.
Bryan wanted to use the trial in a conservative political counter-revolution.
What was the Scopes trial really all about? This: a defense of democracy by Bryan and an attack on democracy by Clarence Darrow, the ACLU, and H. L. Mencken.
It was also about the government's plan to create a genetic master race -- an idea that Bryan was determined to stop.
If you want the proof, with 166 notes, I have provided it here, free of charge:
Does this sound preposterous? Only because the textbooks have dropped this down the Orwellian memory hole. Doubt me? Read this: Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race. This monstrous plan was validated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1927, two years after Bryan's death. Paul A. Lombardo, Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell.