it is more, it is called clarence darrow the story of my life, but it is really more clarence darrow, my philosophy. he doesn't really give you any feel for the great cases and he doesn't give details or revelations and he does talk at length about where we fit on this graveyard landed and how basically all we are very lost sailors on a raft in a tossing sea and the best thing we can do is reach out and give each other comfort. if you really want to get a sense of this philosophy it is a really good place to go. >> thank you. >> hi. who i am if somebody was not willing to reveal how long i have been a big fan of clarence darrow. my question however is, and getting by the obvious know, are there people today who are clarence there are like who are exemplars of this man who is in, who is in his world? >> yeah. actually there is somebody here tonight. i don't know if he is around. paul, are you here? too embarrassed? i think the defense bar takes up capital punishment cases in this country is as gutsy and rave and noble is clarence darrow. [applause] they are. i did a series of stories a

similarly, clarence darrow was a great defense lawyer, a defense lawyer for labor. when he heard the william jennings bryan was going to work for the prosecution, clarence dara said he had to work for the other side. -- darrow said he had to work for the other side. many people might have seen inherit the wind, the famous movie. unlike what the movie shows you, scopes' never went to jail. scopes' agreed to be a defendant because he knew a trial was going to take place some time -- somewhere in tennessee and he wanted to bring business to tennessee. that is why the trial took place there, because scopes' agreed to be the defendant. >> technology was a factor in the trial. cameras were allowed in the courtroom and it was broadcast nationwide on the radio. >> one of the things that is so remarkable about this trial, not only that it was broadcast on the radio and tens of thousands of americans listen to it, but it was a court room. for bryan to try to defend his christianity in creationism in the courtroom -- and was the context of the courtroom in cross-examination th

. >> clarence darrow? >> and i am almost 95 years old so i cannot remember his name. but i have this, and he is in my family. i have 6200 names that i have researched, on my computer. i researched them and make sure that they are my relatives. >> i want to let you stay on the line. we will try to get a phone number to get you connected with him directly. she brings up another part of his life, dayton, tennessee, the scopes monkey trial and clarence darrow. >> i was just going to tell nadine that we've put all of his speeches from 1896 online on our digital project. if you like to use your computer to look at the speeches, there are hundreds of them. every speech he gave in that 1896 presidential campaign is online on the "roads in the making -- modern america" website. >> all material from the series is available on-line, 14 weeks looking at presidential contenders. michael kazin. the scopes monkey trial. >> william jennings bryan is known to a lot of americans because he was the prosecutor in the trial in tennessee in 1925, which was prosecuting a teacher, john scope

as evidenced by the visit darrow, the fillmore west addition and surrounding neighborhoods.during this time, cultivated a relationship with sheriff mike hennessey, the longest serving sheriff in san francisco history. he has been our share for more than 30 years. sheriff hennessy has endorsed me to succeed him as sheriff. sheriff is much more than managing the jail system, which we have a population of about 1500 inmates a day, or protecting government buildings and what share of tennessee did was add it to rehabilitation and re-enter programs for -- before their release from county jail. we need to build on the foundation of sheriff mike hennessey and demonstrate it want to improve public safety, we do so by tackling recidivism, received a -- repeat offender rates that occurred because we are not getting to the ability to correct people's lives and help him correct them themselves before they get out of jail and stay off -- stay out of the criminal past. for every four people the san francisco police department arrest and is prosecuted, almost three are repeat offenders. th

to pop up on darrow at h.b.r. moscow time to discuss the continued great crisis to clues on whether a solution is on the horizon. in russia the markets are bouncing back from earlier losses investors will be waiting for the central bank's refinance rate decision which was left unchanged at eight point two five percent now they are eyeing a slew of the comic data from the u.s. and europe including u.s. inflation figures which is sixteen or thirteen times less so have a look at some of the individual share moves on the mice that some energy may just turn positive with point six percent drop maker it's also up supported by stronger than expected results response hope net profit growth twenty percent to twenty nine million dollars and telecom is still down the company has reached an agreement to join to develop its customer terminals with international chip maker intel looking forward to that sound of risk in that magical light seen believes although investors are generally still cautious russia's stock so looking one

i cannot know william jennings bryan, but i did made clarence darrow -- meet clarence darrow at t held for him by the women of dayton. we're glad that it happened there, and as i was told, it was kind of started for chattanooga, and chattanooga did not want, so they decided to bring it to dayton. it has brought much economy to the city of dayton. >> thank you for calling in sharing your firsthand account to that famous trial. >> talk about tourism, there is a very good museum in the basement of the court house in dayton, tennessee, about the trial and discussion of it around the world or you can also visit the courtroom itself. i sat in the judge's chair. but the famous cross examination, darrow cross- examining bryan, it was actually held on the lawn outside. 2000 people were probably in attendance listening to and watching the cross-examination. we do not have that kind of trial today. but it was, as he said, a carnival and it did help the economy of dayton a good deal because it needed it at the time. >> talking about the prohibition of the income-tax and the popular election of the

the lawyers were clarence darrow and william jennings bryan. bryan had been a democratic candidate for president in 1896, 1900 and 1908. he was the nominee three times. in fact, the first time he was only 36 years of age. he was a gifted orator and a hero of the little people. but by the middle of the 1920s he's in his 60s, and he has been sort of relegate canned to an aside role in democratic party politics, and he becomes the leader, really, of this movement called fundamentalism. and the apex of this was when the big trial took place in dayton, tennessee. and, of course, william jennings bryan goes down this to work with the prosecution. a footnote to this is that one of the preacher, in fact, the man probably most responsible for getting william jennings bryan to go to dayton, tennessee, was j. frank norris. and one of the last things that bryan did before he died just a few days after that trial while he was still in dayton, tennessee, he dropped dead, was write a handwritten note to j. frank norris in fort worth thanking him for his help,

the lawyers pitted against each other were clarence darrow and william jennings bryan. william jennings bryan had been a democratic candidate for president in 1896. he was the nominee three times. in fact, the first time is only 36 years of age. he was a gifted lawyer and a hero's people called him the great commoner. by the middle of the 19 strong he is his 60s and has been relegated to a side role in democratic party politics and he becomes the leader really of this movement called fundamentalism. and the apex of this is in the big trip to vegas in dayton, tennessee. of course william jennings bryan goes out there to work with the prosecution. a footnote this is one of the preachers, in fact the man most responsible for getting william jennings to go to dayton tennessee was frank morris. one of the last things that brain dead before he died just a few days after the trial, while he was still in tennessee was write a handwritten note to jay frank torres, thanking him for his help, encouragement and going to the trail and norris opened by a handwritten note after he'd g